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Statistics for HCI: Making Sense of Quantitative Data
Alan Dix
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DOI 10.2200/S00974ED1V01Y201912HCI044
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SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON HUMAN-CENTERED INFORMATICS
Lecture #44
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Statistics for HCI
Making Sense of Quantitative Data
Alan Dix
Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Wales
SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON HUMAN-CENTERED INFORMATICS #44
ABSTRACT
Many people find statistics confusing, and perhaps even more confusing given recent publicity about problems with traditional p-values and alternative statistical techniques including confidence intervals and Bayesian statistics. This book aims to help readers navigate this morass: to understand the debates, to be able to read and assess other people’s statistical reports, and make appropriate choices when designing and analysing their own experiments, empirical studies, and other forms of quantitative data gathering.
KEYWORDS
statistics, human–computer interaction, quantitative data, evaluation, hypothesis testing, Bayesian statistics significance testing, p-hacking
Contents
1.1 Why are probability and statistics so hard?
1.3 The job of statistics –from the real world to measurement and back again
PART I Wild and Wide –Concerning Randomness and Distributions
2 The unexpected wildness of random
2.2.1 Case 1 –small proportions