tests-as-linear

Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats) (by lindeloev)

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  • Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
  • Everything Is a Linear Model
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    I knew the linked-in-the-article https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/ which is also great. A bit meta on the widespread use of linear models: "Transcending General Linear Reality" by Andrew Abbott, DOI:10.2307/202114
  • Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023
    Maybe you would find it useful to read a textbook on bayesian stats for inspiration. I can recommend Richard McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" which makes it very clear how inflexible it is to just know recipes like t-tests or anovas.

    The canonical approach is to build a generative model with a parameter (or multiple for ~anova) that codes for the difference between groups and do inference on that parameter of interest. Most of the recipes taught in statistics classes can be modelled as a regression of some kind (this counts for frequentist stats too, see https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/ ). Some advocate to do that inference with bayes factors. Others, like discussed elsewhere in this thread, advocate combining the resulting posterior with a cost/value function, but either way the lesson is that there is less focus on "t-test-vs-anova" because they're the same thing anyways.

  • How to cheat stats: common statistical tests are linear models
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023
  • Introduction to Modern Statistics
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
    I understand where you're coming from, and I like the idea for a certain kind of people: those who are very good at handling abstractions. Software engineers do have this skill, but the majority of statistics users do not. Trying to explain the similarities between these linear methods and how all is one [1] to a social scientist who doesn't like numbers nor formulas to begin with would only lead to more confusion.

    But if you ever do a randomized test with a suitable linear model to estimate the efficacy of these two methods, do let us know, that would be 10/10 :)

    [1]: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/#41_one_sample_t...

  • [Statistics and Probability] Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)
    1 project | /r/michaelaalcorn | 11 Mar 2023
  • [Q] Critique of a flowchart I made?
    1 project | /r/statistics | 31 Jan 2023
    My main critique is that these classical tests are often better explained and introduced in the concept of a regression framework. The fact that you even need a flowchart demonstrates how confusing and unintuitive the classical approach to teaching statistics is. If you learn regression, everything else becomes a special case of this much more expressive way of thinking about how to measure variation. This point is made convincingly in this post: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/
  • [Q] Two questions concerning the relationship between non-parametric tools and normal distribution
    1 project | /r/statistics | 20 Dec 2022
    Most parametric tests don’t assume normality. If you feel that assuming normality is not viable, you are free to choose any other distribution. This may not be immediately obvious, since most intro courses teach inference as a bunch of disjointed formulas, but it will make more sense once one learns about generalized linear models framework and realizes that common statistical tests are all linear models. There is no need to jump straight for nonparametric tests just because something isn’t normal, as cool as they are. (Also a pedantic nitpick: Mann-Whitney and Co. test difference in average ranks, not difference in means. So they are not really a nonparametric equivalent to T tests).
  • Use lm function for hypothesis test comparing two means
    1 project | /r/rstats | 27 Oct 2022
    I think this is what you are looking for: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/
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