Re: Most Common Mistake In Statistical Inference

[dennis roberts]

here is my entry for the most common mistake made in statistical inference ...

using and interpreting inference procedures under the assumption of SRS 
.... simple random samples ... when they just can't be

this permeates across almost every technique ... and invades almost every 
study ever published ...

if not in an internal validity sense ... surely in an external validity sense



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