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caio  ·  4776 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics?
Okay. And how do you calculate that number, the percentange of your experiment being right? There's a statistical formula for that?




mk  ·  4776 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, it's called the Student's t-test. Excel will do it for you. You just need two sets of numbers, or you can use ANOVA which takes the t-test to more than two sets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_t-test

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anova

caio  ·  4776 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's great. Thanks for the explanation.