Basic statistical terms and intuition

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Basic statistical terms, including linear regression, independence, and causality. In general, this deck focuses on intuition over equations. You can find more info about this deck as well as the major sources here: http://andrewtmckenzie.com/sr/

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Front	In a t-test, are the two compared populations assumed to follow a normal distribution?
Back	yes
Tags	stat

Front	What does it mean to center the columns of a matrix?
Back	to subtract the column mean from each entry of a column (http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/scale.html)
Tags	stat

Front	In k-fold cross validation, what does a "fold" refer to?
Back	a randomly chosen, equally-sized subset of the data (Shalizi 3.4)
Tags	SHLZ stat

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A nice intermediate-level statistics that are practically useful.