By Ming-Lun Ho
The Autumn Wind casts
Cramer's Theorem Pie
In CLT's face!
The CLT ducks
Cramer's Theorem Pie
asymptotically.
By Ming-Lun Ho
The Autumn Wind casts
Cramer's Theorem Pie
In CLT's face!
The CLT ducks
Cramer's Theorem Pie
asymptotically.
One day there was a fire in a wastebasket in the office of the Dean of Sciences. In rushed a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician. The physicist immediately starts to work on how much energy would have to be removed from the fire to stop the combustion. The chemist works on which reagent would have to be added to the fire to prevent oxidation. While they are doing this, the statistician is setting fires to all the other wastebaskets in the office. "What are you doing?" the others demand.
The statistician replies, "Well, to solve the problem, you obviously need a larger sample size."
There is no free hunch.
Robert P. Abelson (1928 - 2005)
The researcher armed with a confidence interval, but deprived of the false respectability of statistical significance, must work harder to convince himself and others of the importance of his findings. This can only be good.
Michael Oakes