The unconscious (Ucs)
Well this is either very simple or very complicated. I am a believer in...
Tukey’s seven-number summary
One of three different "seven number" summaries of the distribution of a set of scores....
The 3 E's: Efficacy, Effectiveness & Efficiency
From the hugely influential monograph: Cochrane, A. L. (1972). Effectiveness and efficiency. Random reflections on...
Type II censored data
I am putting this here because I know I won't remember it but I think...
Type I censoring
I am putting this here because I know I won't remember it but I think...
Triple/treble blind
An interesting extension of the double blind methodology. In double blind trials the participants...
Test-retest effect/artefact/artifact
I think we should really say "test-retest effect" and I often put scare quotes around...
Thought experiment (Gedankenexperimenten)
Exactly what it says! Some sort of experiment, i.e. an intervention with observed consequences, is...
Test-retest reliability
This is one of the fundamental ways of exploring the reliability of a measure. ...
Transforming data/variable(s)
Technically this could be any transforming of a variable or multiple variables so it could...
The "third sector"
Term much used in the UK (and elsewhere?) to denote charities and charity funded work....
Tests of fit to a distribution
There are a number of situations in which we might want to test the fit...
Type II error
Type II error is the complement of type I error (q.v.) in the NHST (Null...
Type I error
This is a key part of the NHST (Null Hypothesis Significance Testing) paradigm, see null...