Advises on statistical analysis that are often useful in practice (but are not always guaranteed to work).
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Basic easy rules for statistics
In a binomial experiment, if we observe $x=0$ positive individual among $n$ individuals, then the proportion of positive individuals is significantly lower than $3/n$ with a type 1 error less than and very close to $5\%$. This fact, sometimes called…
Stéphane Laurent
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