Latent variables
Any variable that cannot be measured directly but is presumed to be indicated by things...
Log(s) = logarithms
This is a funny one because I suspect that people who liked school maths (or...
Likelihood ratio
This is a powerful way of expressing how much observing something makes the probability of...
Long ("thin") format data
Is what it says! A dataset that is long and thin! Details So what? Well,...
Likert scale
I confess that I have been avoiding doing this definition because I'm uneasy about whether...
League tables
Used a lot in sport! Basically ranking things, typically in our field, services, by...
Logistic regression
This is a huge area and this is going to be just a short summary....
Left censored data
Censored data (see entry) is data where at least some values are not know accurately...
Linear versus non-linear processes/relationships
An important distinction that is essentially mathematical. As the name suggests this is about...