What is a P-value anyway?: 34 stories to help you actually understand statistics

I tell a friend that my job is more fun that you'd think: what is statistics?

Describing Data.

So Bill Gates walks into a diner: on means and medians

Bill Gates goes back to the diner: standard deviation and interquartile range

A skewed shot, a biased referee

You can't have 2.6 children: on different types of data

Why your high school math teacher was right: how to draw a graph

Data Distributions.

Chutes-and-ladders and serum hemoglobin levels: thoughts on the normal distribution

If the normal distribution is so normal, how come my data never are?

But I like that sweater: what amount of fit is a "good enough" fit?

Variation of Study Results: Confidence Intervals.

Long hair: a standard error of the older male

How to avoid a rainy wedding: variation and confidence intervals

Statistical ties, and why you shouldn't wear one: more on confidence intervals

Hypothesis Testing.

Choosing a route to cycle home: what p-values do for us

The probability of a dry toothbrush: what is a p-value anyway?

Michael Jordan won't accept the null hypothesis: how to interpret high p-values

The difference between sports and business: thoughts on the t test and the Wilcoxon test

Meeting up with friends: on sample size, precision and statistical power

Regression and Decision Making.

When to visit Chicago: about linear and logistic regression

My assistant turns up for work with shorter hair: about regression and confounding

I ignore my child's cough, my wife panics: about specificity and sensitivity

Avoid the sales: statistics to help make decisions

Some Common Statistical Errors, and What They Teach Us.

One better than Tommy John: four statistical errors, some of which are totally trivial, but all of which matter a great deal

Weed control for p-values: a single scientific question should be addressed by a single statistical test

How to shoot a TV episode: statistical analyses that don't provide meaningful numbers

Sam, 93 years old, 700 pound Florida super-granddad: two common errors in regression

Regression to the Mike: a statistical explanation of why an eligible friend of mine is still single

OJ Simpson, Sally Clark, George and me: about conditional probability

Boy meets girl, girl rejects boy, boy starts multiple testing

Some things that have never happened to me: why you shouldn't compare p-values

How to win the marathon: avoiding errors when measuring things that happen over time

The difference between bad statistics and a bacon sandwich: are there "rules" in statistics?

Look at your garbage bin: it may be the only thing you need to know about statistics

Numbers that mean something: linking math and science

Statistics is about people, even if you can't see the tears.