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Chris Fonnesbeck
February 08, 2015
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Transcript
Statistical Thinking for Data Science Chris Fonnesbeck Vanderbilt University
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21/22 falling 7+ stories survived
2 fell together
40% at night
“Even more surprising, the longer the fall, the greater the
chance of survival.”
2 to 32 stories (average = 5.5)
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"... 132 such victims were admitted to the Animal Medical
Center on 62nd Street in Manhattan ..."
"Found" Data
convenience sample
Missing Data
Representative
Statistical Issues
Big Data
“With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves ” Chris
Anderson, Wired
Alfred Landon
Literary Digest Straw Poll
"Next week, the first answers from these ten million will
begin the incoming tide of marked ballots, to be triple-checked, verified, five-times cross-classified and totalled."
2.4 million returns
41 - 55
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George Gallup
Sampled 50,000
66%
Random Sampling
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Bias
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Self-selection Bias
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For some estimate of unknown quantity ,
p = 0.5 sample_sizes = [10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000]
replicates = 1000 biases = [] for n in sample_sizes: bias = np.empty(replicates) for i in range(replicates): true_sample = np.random.normal(size=n) negative_values = true_sample<0 missing = np.random.binomial(1, p, n).astype(bool) observed_sample = true_sample[~(negative_values & missing)] bias[i] = observed_sample.mean() biases.append(bias)
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Accuracy Mean Squared Error
“The numbers have no way of speaking for themselves” Nate
Silver
White House Big Data Partners Workshop
White House Big Data Partners Workshop 19 Participants 0 Statisticians
NSF Working Group on Big Data
NSF Working Group on Big Data 100 experts convened 0
statisticians
Moore Foundation Data Science Environments
Moore Foundation Data Science Environments 0 directors with statistical expertise
NIH BD2K Executive Committee
NIH BD2K Executive Committee 17 committee members 0 statisticians
Feeling left out?
It's our own fault
“Almost everything you learned in your college statistics course was
wrong”
Typical introductory statistics syllabus 1.Descriptive statistics and plotting
Typical introductory statistics syllabus 1.Descriptive statistics and plotting 2.Basic probability
Typical introductory statistics syllabus 1.Descriptive statistics and plotting 2.Basic probability
3.Hypothesis testing
Typical introductory statistics syllabus 1.Descriptive statistics and plotting 2.Basic probability
3.Hypothesis testing 4.Experimental design
Typical introductory statistics syllabus 1.Descriptive statistics and plotting 2.Basic probability
3.Hypothesis testing 4.Experimental design 5.ANOVA
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Test Statistic
T-statistic
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p-value
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false positive rate
"The value for which , or 1 in 20, is
1.96 or nearly 2; it is convenient to take this point as a limit in judging whether a deviation ought to be considered significant or not." R.A. Fisher
p-value
the probability that the observed differences are due to chance
the probability that the observed differences are due to chance
a measure of the reliability of the result
a measure of the reliability of the result
the probability that the null hypothesis is true
the probability that the null hypothesis is true
"If an experiment were repeated infinitely, p represents the proportion
of values more extreme than the observed value, given that the null hypothesis is true."
H0 : Mean duckling body mass did not differ among
years.
H0 : Mean duckling body mass did not differ among
years.
H0 : The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder for males
and females were equal.
H0 : The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder for males
and females were equal.
H0 : The density of large trees in logged and
unlogged forest stands were equal
H0 : The density of large trees in logged and
unlogged forest stands were equal
Statistical Straw Man
Statistical hypotheses are not interesting
Hypothesis tests are not decision support tools
Multiple Comparisons
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Family-wise Error Rate >>> 1. - (1. - 0.05) **
20 0.6415140775914581
import seaborn as sb import pandas as pd n =
20 r = 36 df = pd.concat([pd.DataFrame({'y':np.random.normal(size=n), 'x':np.random.random(n), 'replicate':[i]*n}) for i in range(r)]) sb.lmplot('x', 'y', df, col='replicate', col_wrap=6)
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Statistically Significant!
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"Despite a large statistical literature for multiple testing corrections, usually
it is impossible to decipher how much data dredging by the reporting authors or other research teams has preceded a reported research finding."
What's the Alternative?
Build models and use them to estimate things we care
about
Effect size estimation
Data-generating Model
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Florida manatee Trichechus manatus
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occupied?
occupied? available?
occupied? available? seen?
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Estimating visibility
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Bayesian Statistics
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Bayes' Formula
Probabilistic Modeling
Evidence-based Medicine
ASD Interventions Research 19 independent studies 27 different interventions
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“While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm,
Romney’s slipping into the presidency. ”
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Heirarchical modeling
Pollster effects
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Data Science
Data
Science
Those who ignore statistics are condemned to re-invent it. --
Brad Efron