statistical methods
Quantitative analysis tools
Statistical methods are techniques for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data.
They range from simple calculations like averages and percentages to complex procedures like regression analysis and hypothesis testing.
Researchers across fields use statistical methods to identify patterns, test theories, and draw conclusions from data: The study employed statistical methods to determine whether the drug was effective.
- medianCentral sorted value
- modeWay or method
- meanAverage, or spiteful
- ANOVACompares means among groups
- survey designPlanning research data collection
least squares · probability distribution · experimental design · variance · hypothesis testing · t-test · data mining · standard deviation · quartiles · bootstrapping · data analysis · outliers · normal · sampling · confidence interval · margin of error · prediction · law of large numbers
- applied mathlinear programming, differential equations, probability, calculus, modeling
- authorshipauthorship, author bio, byline, attributed, credited
- NLPtokenization, natural language processing, NLP, parsing, stemming
- quantitative methodslinear programming, optimization, statistical analysis, mathematical modeling, data analysis
- corpus linguisticscorpus, word counts, word frequency, concordance, n-grams
- text analysistext analysis, bigram, trigram, tokenization, writing style
statistical methodsguesswork
Conclusions drawn without proof
wild guess · speculation · conjecture · intuition · gut feeling
statistical methodsanecdotal evidence
Support from individual accounts
ethnography · phenomenology · hermeneutics · close reading · thick description
statistical methodsgut instinct
Immediate unreasoned knowing
flying blind · shooting from the hip · trial and error · rule of thumb · common sense