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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...

tmp

This exists, I hope very temporarily, to explore an issue I am having with BetterDocs...

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. ...

Tidyverse

This is really just amusement but largely switching the way I use R from "base/standard...

t-scores

I probably last saw this in the last century but I'll put it in anyway! Details Essentially...

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....

Ties

Things some people wear round their necks. Hm, no, not those. This refers...

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...