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Dense Kuala Lumpur housing at blue hour, lit windows against a deep navy sky.

Statistics 15 min

Mean, Median, Mode: The Average Is a Choice, Not a Fact

Three different numbers are all correctly called "the average", and which one gets published changes what a reader concl...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 26 Jul

Graph paper under a desk lamp with a hand-inked cloud of dots and a brass magnifier, no axes or numbers.

Statistics 20 min

A High R² Does Not Mean the Model Is Right

Anscombe printed one regression summary for four data sets in 1973 and said the features that matter are "invisible if w...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 26 Jul

Dozens of identical freshly machined brass flanged parts stand in rows on a workbench.

Statistics 17 min

Standard Deviation vs Standard Error: Two Numbers, Two Questions

Mean ± 4.36 and mean ± 0.97 are not two ways of saying the same thing. Altman and Bland assigned each to a different que...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 26 Jul

A survey interviewer with a clipboard stands at a lit doorway at the end of a dim corridor.

Statistics 17 min

What a 95% Confidence Interval Actually Means

Nearly everyone reads a confidence interval as "there is a 95% probability the true value is in here" — including 59% of...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 26 Jul