Asymptotically, sample proportions from a multinomial distribution converge in distribution to a multivariate normal distribution with a singular negative product correlation structure. Based on this ...

The linkage disequilibrium method is currently the most widely used single sample estimator of genetic effective population size. The commonly used software packages come with two options, referred to ...

This applet allows users to drag sliders to change the confidence level and sample size. The applet helps users visualize the meaning of the phrase "C% confidence," by showing that C% of the samples ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 31, No. 3 (1982), pp. 298-300 (3 pages) The problem is to determine the sample size, which will produce a confidence ...

Third in the series: Nobody becomes a Psych major to study statistics The science of uncertainty. Statistics – much to the regret of many potential psych majors – is the core methodology that links ...

The probability that the null hypothesis will be rejected when it is actually true is called the false positive rate and is determined by the significance level of the test (called alpha which is ...

Understanding the confidence interval will help you grasp what an election poll is -- or is not -- saying. As you might have guessed, the media consistently gets it wrong. Candidate Gobermouch is ...

Explain the behaviour of a confidence interval over repeated independent sampling and how this is linked to the interpretation of a confidence interval as "providing a range of values which we are XX% ...