Stattalk Videos

StatTalk Videos

Stat Talk Videos are 3 to 5 minute mini stat lessons by Andrew Vickers, a biostatistician who works at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is also a professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College. The videos are on MSL (MyStatLab). Look at the left side bar and select “Tools For Success”. You may need to scroll down to find the link to the StatTalk Videos. Each week you will watch 1, 2 or 3 of these videos (see the assignment below). For EACH video, type your response to the “StatTalk Video Prompt Assignment” found on the Project Page of Statsarecool.com and turn in at the beginning of class on the indicated due dates.

Week # / Due date / Video # / Stat Talk Video Title
2 / 5-Sep / 24 / Statistics is About People, Even if You Can't See the Tears.
3 / 11-Sep / 23 / Multiple Testing
3 / 14-Sep / 21 / Absolute vs. Relative Risk
4 / 21-Sep / 1 / What is an Average?
4 / 21-Sep / 2 / When Should You Use a Mean and When Should You Use a Median?
5 / 28-Sep / 4 / Variation 1. Introduction and Quartiles
5 / 28-Sep / 5 / Variation 2: Standard Deviation (With a Digression on Eggroulette)
6 / 5-Oct / 6 / The Normal Distribution
6 / 5-Oct / 7 / Not the Normal Distribution
7 / 9-Oct / 15 / Two Types of Variation
7 / 9-Oct / 16 / Standard Error and Standard Deviation
8 / 19-Oct / 8 / Sampling and Parameters
9 / 26-Oct / 3 / Sampling
9 / 26-Oct / 22 / A Result is not a Conclusion
10 / 2-Nov / 9 / Why Use a p Value Anyway?
10 / 2-Nov / 10 / What Does a p Value Mean?
10 / 2-Nov / 11 / A p Value is About the Probability of the Data, Not of the Hypothesis
11 / 9-Nov / 12 / What is Statistical Significance?
11 / 9-Nov / 13 / Basketball Players Won't Accept the Null Hypothesis
11 / 9-Nov / 14 / The Fish and Chip Guy Won't Accept the Null Hypothesis
12 / 13-Nov / 17 / How does Statistical Testing Work?
12 / 16-Nov / 18 / Regression
14 / 27-Nov / 19 / Confounding
14 / 27-Nov / 20 / Extrapolation