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Peter Flom

New York, NY

http://www.statisticalanalysisconsulting.com/

I'm a statistical consultant to graduate students and researchers in fields including the behavioral and health sciences. I've assisted with review of articles, and with preparation of grants, dissertations and papers.

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Statistics Jokes
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What's the difference between variance and standard deviation?
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What is the meaning of "All models are wrong, but some are useful"
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Is this really how p-values work? Can a million research papers per year be based on pure randomness?
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Percentile vs quantile vs quartile
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How to explain 1.5 children?
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What is the difference between a Normal and a Gaussian Distribution
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Warning in R - Chi-squared approximation may be incorrect
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Is it possible to change a hypothesis to match observed data (aka fishing expedition) and avoid an increase in Type I errors?
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Birthday paradox with a (huge) twist: Probability of sharing exact same date of birth with partner?
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Which "mean" to use and when?
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If mean is so sensitive, why use it in the first place?
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Is there an intuitive interpretation of $A^TA$ for a data matrix $A$?
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How would you explain covariance to someone who understands only the mean?
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Is a distribution that is normal, but highly skewed, considered Gaussian?
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What are disadvantages of using the lasso for variable selection for regression?
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Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues
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Why does basic hypothesis testing focus on the mean and not on the median?
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How to ask a professor from 29 years ago to write you a recommendation?
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Should covariates that are not statistically significant be 'kept in' when creating a model?
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What is normality?
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When teaching statistics, use "normal" or "Gaussian"?
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Are there parameters where a biased estimator is considered "better" than the unbiased estimator?
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Examples for teaching: Correlation does not mean causation
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Is LaTeX an implicit prerequisite in Undergraduate Mathematics?
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How to do logistic regression subset selection?
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How to find residuals and plot them
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How do I motivate my PhD students to attend seminars
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How to deal with high correlation among predictors in multiple regression?
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Is linear regression still relevant in a mid-level DS interview?
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