Statistics for non-normally distributed data?

In many studies, it is observed that the geochemical and environmental data do not follow a normal distribution. This may be due to the samples from different populations or origins. The basic...

09 October 2017 9,482 10 View

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The real world data (e.g.environmental, geochemical studies), sometimes, do not follow a normal distribution. The data are found to be skewed and statistical analyses yield untrue results. The...

09 October 2017 3,909 20 View

How far the concept of river-linking is justified to reduce the water scarcity problem? What could be the impacts on water environment?

08 September 2017 8,486 13 View

Sample size and testing of statistical hypothesis?

07 August 2017 595 8 View

Squared cosine value of a variable?

07 August 2017 5,940 3 View

Low communality value of a variable?

Communality value is also a deciding factor to include or exclude a variable in the factor analysis. A value of above 0.5 is considered to be ideal. But in a study, it is seen that a variable with...

07 August 2017 3,424 6 View

Factor analysis and principal component analysis?

In statistics, what's the basic difference between factor analysis and principal component analysis?

06 July 2017 4,214 9 View

pH and elevated fluoride concentration?

10 November 2016 5,506 6 View

Determination of groundwater velocity from stable isotope analysis?

10 November 2016 1,564 4 View

'Piper diagram' or 'Piper trilinear diagram' ?

Piper diagram is an important graphical tool to understand the chemistry of groundwater. This diagram has been designated as 'Piper trilinear diagram' in some reports. Piper diagram includes...

09 October 2016 6,852 2 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

VIF very high, but correlation is low and coefficient is significant. Which one whould I choose?

Hello. I have a question whether if my coefficients (statistically significant) would be valid when VIFs are really high. In my model, there are independent variables(IV), moderating variables...

26 February 2021 956 13 View

Data Analysis K-S and S-W tests?

Hello, I have conducted analysis where the K-W and S-W have come out as p

25 February 2021 9,648 3 View

Statistics: include groups of respondents made by one person for analysis?

Good morning, I could not find literature about this so I am asking. I am organizing data for a questionnaire (N=100) that foresees some personal questions like level of education. For the aim...

25 February 2021 2,090 4 View

Which is the best software or programming language (user friendly) for analysing data?

I have a basic knowledge on Python, R and MATLAB in analysing data. Among those, which is the best and user friendly? Which one should I learn deeply to analyse data?N:B: I want to learn data...

20 February 2021 3,950 15 View

Is the box plot of climatic indices better illustrate from daily data or annual data?

Hello, I hope you have a good time. I work on a research project about temperature indices. Due to the high number of indices, I only work on tables and maps on an annual time scale. In other...

19 February 2021 9,742 2 View

ANCOVA controlling baseline in RCT - how to perform power analysis and sample size estimation?

Hi, I have a simple question. I am hoping to perform a power analysis/sample size estimation for an RCT. We will be controlling for baseline symptoms, and using post-treatment or change scores as...

19 February 2021 2,648 23 View

How to find if Qualitative and Quantitative (discrete) variables have a relation?

I'm going to do a brief research about the dependance between the number of cases of Covid-19 and sex( male/female) . One of the requierements is to use inferential statistics to test the...

18 February 2021 7,092 11 View

Algorithms to filter corrective max and min from a set of data?

I've got this 5 year Direct Normal Irradiance data I downloaded from https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/. I ordered this by year and by every 24 hours because I need the DNI curve by max in summer, min...

17 February 2021 2,777 5 View