(Basic Statistics for Citizen Data Scientist) Central Limit Theorem Theorem 1 – Central Limit Theorem: If x has a distribution with mean μ and standard deviation σ then for n sufficiently large, the variable has a distribution which is approximately the standard normal distribution. Observation: The larger the value of n the better the approximation will be. For practical purposes when n ≥ 30, then the approximation will be …

(Basic Statistics for Citizen Data Scientist) Confidence Intervals for Sampling Distributions Suppose we take a sample of size n from a normal population N(μ, σ) and ask whether the sample mean differs significantly from the overall population mean. As we have seen in Single Sample Hypothesis Testing The exact point of rejection (at the right tail), zcrit, has value And so …

(Basic Statistics for Citizen Data Scientist) Standardized Effect Size Definition 1: Cohen’s d, a statistic which is independent of the sample size and is defined as where m1 and m2 represent two means and σpooled is some combined value for the standard deviation. The effect size given by d is conventionally viewed as small, medium or large as follows:  d = 0.20 – small effect  d = …