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Interesting Statistical Facts You Probably Didn't Know
Originally posted by Venkat Raman on LinkedIn
Kumar Shantanu |

Credits: Venkat Raman on LinkedIn

  1. The p-value is uniformly distributed under the null hypothesis.

  2. You can't accept the Null Hypothesis.

  3. In nature, Normal Distribution is not the most prevalent.

  4. There is a difference between Normal Distribution and Standard Normal Distribution.

  5. The earliest use of Logistic Regression was not for classification but regression. Logistic Regression outputs probabilities not just 0 and 1.

  6. The confusion matrix is not named because it causes confusion.

  7. Non Parametric does not mean No Parameters.

  8. Central limit theorem does not kick in at n=30.

  9. Confidence Interval will be always narrower than Prediction Interval.

  10. Log transformation will make your data near "Normal" only if your original data distribution was Log Normal.

  11. F test in Linear Regression is not useful.

  12. The standard error is the estimate of SD.

  13. Errors != Residuals.

  14. Maximizing the Likelihood is equivalent to minimizing KL Divergence.

  15. AUROC is all about ranking and has an interesting relation with Mann Whitney U test.

  16. PDF != Probability.