Peter Flom

New York, NY

Age: 53

I'm a statistical consultant to graduate students and researchers in fields including the behavioral and health sciences. I've assisted with review of articles, and with preparation of grants, dissertations and papers.

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Most confusing statistical terms

terminology communication asked Jan 12 '12 at 12:35

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Strategies for introducing advanced statistics to various audiences

consulting asked Oct 2 '12 at 14:18

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Logistic regression with directional data as IV

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party vs. rpart vs. ??? for partitioning trees in R

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Beamer error driving me nuts

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Question about combining hazard ratios - Maybe Simpson's paradox?

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Factor analysis on multiply imputed data

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How to get a list of all the labels in a LaTeX document in WinEdt

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Error when running library(ggplot2)

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Statistics Jokes

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What is the meaning of “All models are wrong, but some are useful”

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What is normality?

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Is it ever good to increase significance level?

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Is median fairer than mean?

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How to do logistic regression subset selection?

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Which “mean” to use and when?

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If mean is so sensitive, why use it in the first place?

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Does causation imply correlation?

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Choosing the best model from among different “best” models

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How to combine annual rainfall data with specific forecast of known accuracy to predict weather for a particular day?

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Is there a simple way of detecting outliers?

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Why do coefficients and significance levels change so much in my OLS? Do I need MIXED model instead?

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Problems with pie charts

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Multiple dependant variables in logistic regression

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Detecting outliers using standard deviations

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Whether to delete cases that are flagged as outliers by statistical software when performing multiple regression?

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How do I evaluate standard deviation?

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Identifying fraudulent questionnaires

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Zero-inflated count models in R: what is the real advantage?

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Most underused data visualization

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Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues

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Famous statistician quotes

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Famous statistician quotes

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Interpreting main effect and interaction

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Effect size as the hypothesis for significance testing

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How to annoy a statistical referee?

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What's the difference between mathematical statistics and statistics?

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Why use logged variables?

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Sum of squares of residuals instead of sum of residuals

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