Perhaps the most popular question SCU consultants get asked is whether it is better to report a standard deviation or a standard error. This question is always built upon a fundamental misunderstanding of these two very different concepts. I suspect that students have missed the point because their supervisors tell them, for example, to use […]
You could be forgiven for feeling a bit confused about the most appropriate way to summarise the statistical results of your research. Seems like in the past a p-value was all you needed. If p < 0.05, hooray! Significant result, paper published. If p > 0.05, misery! Non-significant result, paper pushed into bottom of filing […]
In the FAQ series we will elaborate on common questions that come across our desk. This is not so you wouldn’t ask us those questions anymore, but to provide you a deeper understanding on how to formulate your questions more specific to your research context. On the surface it seems like the right question to […]