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We don't just add up all of the data points. We then have to divide by the number of data points there are. So we then have to divide, we then have to divide by the number of data points that there actually are. So this might look like very fancy notation, but it's really just saying, add up your data points and divide...
Inferring population mean from sample mean Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So this might look like very fancy notation, but it's really just saying, add up your data points and divide by the number of data points you have. And this capital Greek letter, sigma, literally means sum, sum all of the x i's from x sub one all the way to x sub n, and then divide by the number of data points you have...
Inferring population mean from sample mean Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So the population mean, they will denote it with mu. We already talked about that. And here, once again, you're gonna take the sum, but this time it's going to be the sum of all of the elements in your population. So your x sub i's, and you'll still start at i equals one, but it usually gets denoted that, hey, you're t...
Inferring population mean from sample mean Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So to figure out this probability, a good place to start is just to think about all of the different possible ways that we can flip three coins. So we could get all tails. Tails, tails, tails. We could get tails, tails, heads. We could get tails, heads, tails. We could get tails, heads, heads. We could get heads, tails...
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We could get tails, tails, heads. We could get tails, heads, tails. We could get tails, heads, heads. We could get heads, tails, tails. We could get heads, tails, heads. We could get heads, heads, tails. And then we could get all heads.
Example Probability through counting outcomes Precalculus Khan Academy.mp3
We could get heads, tails, tails. We could get heads, tails, heads. We could get heads, heads, tails. And then we could get all heads. So there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 possible outcomes. Now, how many of the outcomes involve flipping exactly two heads? Let's see, that's all tails.
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And then we could get all heads. So there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 possible outcomes. Now, how many of the outcomes involve flipping exactly two heads? Let's see, that's all tails. That's one head, one head. This has two heads right there. Two heads.
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Let's see, that's all tails. That's one head, one head. This has two heads right there. Two heads. That's one head. This is two heads right over there. Then this is two heads right over here.
Example Probability through counting outcomes Precalculus Khan Academy.mp3
Two heads. That's one head. This is two heads right over there. Then this is two heads right over here. And then this is three heads, so that doesn't count. So there are three outcomes where we, with exactly two heads. So, let me spell heads properly.
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Then this is two heads right over here. And then this is three heads, so that doesn't count. So there are three outcomes where we, with exactly two heads. So, let me spell heads properly. Two heads. So the probability of flipping of exactly two heads, and the word exactly is important, because if you didn't say exactly...
Example Probability through counting outcomes Precalculus Khan Academy.mp3
So, let me spell heads properly. Two heads. So the probability of flipping of exactly two heads, and the word exactly is important, because if you didn't say exactly, then maybe three heads, well, you flip two heads, so you have to say exactly two heads. So you don't include the situation where you get three heads. So ...
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And so I went to the insurance company and I said, I want to get a $1 million policy. And what I'm actually getting a quote on is a term life policy, which is really, I just care about the next 20 years. After those 20 years, hopefully I can pay off my mortgage and there'll be money saved up. And hopefully my kids woul...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
And hopefully my kids would kind of at least have maybe gotten to college or I would have saved up enough money for college. So that's why I'm willing to do a term life policy. The other option is to do a whole life policy, where you could pay a certain amount per year for the rest of your life. And at any point you di...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
And at any point you die, you get the $1 million. In a term life, I'm only going to pay $500 per year for the next 20 years. If at any point over those 20 years I die, my family gets $1 million. At the 21st year, I have to get a new policy. And since I'm going to be older and I'd have a higher chance of dying at that p...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
At the 21st year, I have to get a new policy. And since I'm going to be older and I'd have a higher chance of dying at that point, then it's probably going to be more expensive for me to get insurance. But I really am just worried about the next 20 years. But what I want to do in this video is think about, given these ...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
But what I want to do in this video is think about, given these numbers that have been quoted to me by the insurance company, what do they think that my odds of dying are over the next 20 years? So what I want to think about is the probability of Sal's death in 20 years, based on what the people at the insurance compan...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
And the way to think about it, or one way to think about it, kind of a back of the envelope way, is to think about what's the total premiums they're getting over the life of this policy, divided by how much they're insuring me for. So they're getting $500 times 20 years is equal to $10,000 over the life of this policy....
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
So they're getting, let's see, those zeros cancel out, this zero cancels out. They're getting, over the life of the policy, $1 in premiums for every $100 in insurance. Or another way to think about it, let's say that there were 100 Sal's, 134-year-olds looking to get 20-year-term life insurance. And they insured all of...
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And they insured all of them. So if you multiplied this times 100, if you multiplied this by 100, they would get $100 in premiums. $100 in premiums. This is the case where you have 100 Sal's, or 100 people who are pretty similar to me. 100 Sal's. They would get $100 in premium. And the only way that they could make mon...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
This is the case where you have 100 Sal's, or 100 people who are pretty similar to me. 100 Sal's. They would get $100 in premium. And the only way that they could make money is if, at most, one of those Sal's, or really just break even, if at most one of those Sal's were to die. So break even if only one Sal dies. I do...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
And the only way that they could make money is if, at most, one of those Sal's, or really just break even, if at most one of those Sal's were to die. So break even if only one Sal dies. I don't like talking about this. It's a little bit morbid. So one way to think about it, they're getting $1 in premium for $100 insura...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
It's a little bit morbid. So one way to think about it, they're getting $1 in premium for $100 insurance. Or if they had 100 Sal's, they would get $100 in premium. And the only way they would break even if only one of those Sal's dies. So what they're really saying is that the only way they can break even is if the pro...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
And the only way they would break even if only one of those Sal's dies. So what they're really saying is that the only way they can break even is if the probability of Sal dying in the next 20 years is less than or equal to 1 in 100. And this is an insurance company. They're trying to make money. So they're probably gi...
Term life insurance and death probability Finance & Capital Markets Khan Academy.mp3
Lucio wants to test whether playing violent video games makes people more violent. He asks his friends whether they play violent video games and whether they have been in a fight in the last month. He recorded the results in the table shown below. Fill in the table to show the fraction of each group of students who hav...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Fill in the table to show the fraction of each group of students who have been in a fight. Then decide whether there's an association between violent video games and getting in a fight amongst Lucio's friends. So let's see what they're doing here. So students who play video games, fractions who have been in a fight, fr...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So students who play video games, fractions who have been in a fight, fraction who haven't. Students who don't play violent video games, fraction who have been in a fight, fraction who haven't. So let's answer the first part of this. Students who play violent video games. So let's look at those students. So the student...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Students who play violent video games. So let's look at those students. So the students who play violent video games, it looks like Ellen plays violent video games. Actually, let me just focus on the data that we care about. So Ellen, so let's look at all the people who play violent video games. So let's see. This colu...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Actually, let me just focus on the data that we care about. So Ellen, so let's look at all the people who play violent video games. So let's see. This column is violent video games, so we have a yes here. So we have both of these right over here. And then we have down here. And then that's all of them.
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This column is violent video games, so we have a yes here. So we have both of these right over here. And then we have down here. And then that's all of them. There's one, two, three, four, five people who play violent video games. Now what fraction of them have been in a fight? Well, it looks like one out of the five h...
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And then that's all of them. There's one, two, three, four, five people who play violent video games. Now what fraction of them have been in a fight? Well, it looks like one out of the five have been in a fight. The rest of them have not been in a fight. So we could say 1 5th. Let's just write that down.
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Well, it looks like one out of the five have been in a fight. The rest of them have not been in a fight. So we could say 1 5th. Let's just write that down. So 1 5th have been in a fight. 1 5th have been in a fight. Fraction who haven't, 4 5ths.
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Let's just write that down. So 1 5th have been in a fight. 1 5th have been in a fight. Fraction who haven't, 4 5ths. So that's all these other nos. They play violent video games, but they haven't been in a fight, one, two, three, four, 4 5ths. So students who don't play violent video games.
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Fraction who haven't, 4 5ths. So that's all these other nos. They play violent video games, but they haven't been in a fight, one, two, three, four, 4 5ths. So students who don't play violent video games. Well, that's everyone else. And let's see how many data points that is. That is one, two, three, four, five, six, s...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So students who don't play violent video games. Well, that's everyone else. And let's see how many data points that is. That is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. So there's a total of 15 students. And how many of them have been in a fight? So let's see.
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
That is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. So there's a total of 15 students. And how many of them have been in a fight? So let's see. We have one, and then let's see, one, and two, and three. So three out of the 15 have been in a fight. So three out of 15 is the same thing as...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So let's see. We have one, and then let's see, one, and two, and three. So three out of the 15 have been in a fight. So three out of 15 is the same thing as one out of five. Those are equivalent fractions. And then the fraction who haven't, well, that's just going to be everyone else. That's going to be 12 out of 15 or...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So three out of 15 is the same thing as one out of five. Those are equivalent fractions. And then the fraction who haven't, well, that's just going to be everyone else. That's going to be 12 out of 15 or four out of five. So based on Lucio's data, and this wasn't a huge sample size, obviously, he only found five kids w...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
That's going to be 12 out of 15 or four out of five. So based on Lucio's data, and this wasn't a huge sample size, obviously, he only found five kids who were playing violent video games, and one of them had gotten into a fight. So this isn't a super rigorous study. But at least based on his data, if we're trying to de...
Video games and violence Statistical studies Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
And as we will see as we build up our understanding of them, not only are they interesting in their own right, but there's a lot of very powerful probability and statistics that we can do based on our understanding of binomial variables. So to make things concrete as quickly as possible, I'll start with a very tangible...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So this is my coin here. Doesn't even have to be a fair coin. Let me just draw this really fast. So that's my coin. And let's say on a given flip of that coin, the probability that I get heads is 0.6, and the probability that I get tails, well, it would be one minus 0.6, or 0.4. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So that's my coin. And let's say on a given flip of that coin, the probability that I get heads is 0.6, and the probability that I get tails, well, it would be one minus 0.6, or 0.4. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to define a random variable X as being equal to the number of heads after 10 flips of my coin. Now ...
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Now what makes this a binomial variable? Well, one of the first conditions that's often given for a binomial variable is that it's made up of a finite number of independent trials. So it's made up, made up of independent, independent trials. Now what do I mean by independent trials? Well, a trial is each flip of my coi...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Now what do I mean by independent trials? Well, a trial is each flip of my coin. So a flip is equal to a trial in the language of this statement that I just made. And what do I mean by each flip or each trial being independent? Well, the probability of whether I get heads or tails on each flip are independent of whethe...
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And what do I mean by each flip or each trial being independent? Well, the probability of whether I get heads or tails on each flip are independent of whether I just got heads or tails on some previous flip. So in this case, we are made up of independent trials. So another condition is each trial can be clearly classif...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So another condition is each trial can be clearly classified as either a success or failure. Or another way of thinking about it, each trial clearly has one of two discrete outcomes. So each trial, and in the example I'm giving, the flip is a trial, can be classified, can be classified as either success or failure. So ...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So in the context of this random variable X, we could define heads as a success because that's what we are happening to count up. And so you're either going to have success or failure. You're either gonna have heads or tails on each of these trials. Now another condition for being a binomial variable is that you have a...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Now another condition for being a binomial variable is that you have a fixed number of trials. Fixed number of trials. So in this case, we're saying that we have 10 trials, 10 flips of our coin. And then the last condition is the probability of success, and in this context, success is a heads, on each trial, each trial...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
And then the last condition is the probability of success, and in this context, success is a heads, on each trial, each trial is constant. And we've already talked about it. On each trial on each flip, the probability of heads is going to stay at 0.6. If for some reason that were to change from trial to trial, maybe if...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
If for some reason that were to change from trial to trial, maybe if you were to swap the coin and each coin had a different probability, then this would no longer be a binomial variable. And so you might say, okay, that's reasonable. I get why this is a binomial variable. Can you give me an example of something that i...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Can you give me an example of something that is not a binomial variable? Well, let's say that I were to define the variable Y, and it's equal to the number of kings after taking two cards from a standard deck of cards, a standard deck, without replacement, without replacement. So you might immediately say, well, this f...
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We have each trial can be classified as either a success or failure. For each trials, when I take a card out, if I get a king, that looks like that would be a success. If I don't get a king, that would be a failure. So it seems to meet that right over there. It has a fixed number of trials. I'm taking two cards out of ...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So it seems to meet that right over there. It has a fixed number of trials. I'm taking two cards out of the deck, so it seems to meet that. But what about these conditions, that it's made up of independent trials, or that the probability of success on each trial is constant? Well, if I get a king, the probability of ki...
Binomial variables Random variables AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
But what about these conditions, that it's made up of independent trials, or that the probability of success on each trial is constant? Well, if I get a king, the probability of king on the first trial, probability, I say king, on first trial would be equal to, well, out of a deck of 52 cards, you're going to have four...
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But what about the probability of getting a king on the second, on the second trial? What would this be equal to? Well, it depends on what happened on the first trial. If the first trial, you had a king, well, then you would have, so let's see, this would be the situation given first trial, first king. Well, now, there...
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If the first trial, you had a king, well, then you would have, so let's see, this would be the situation given first trial, first king. Well, now, there would be three kings left in a deck of 51 cards. But if you did not get a king on the first trial, now you have four kings in a deck of 51 cards, because remember, we'...
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You're just taking that first card, whatever you did, and you're taking it aside. So what's interesting here is this is not made up of independent trials. It does not meet this condition. The probability on your second trial is dependent on what happens on your first trial. And another way to think about it is because ...
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The probability on your second trial is dependent on what happens on your first trial. And another way to think about it is because we aren't replacing each card that we're picking, the probability of success on each trial also is not constant. And so that's why this right over here is not a binomial variable. Now, if ...
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So we have some data here that we can plot on a scatter plot that looks something like that. And so the next question, given that we've been talking a lot about lines of regression or regression lines, is can we fit a regression line to this? Well, if we try to, we might get something that looks like this, or maybe som...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
I'm just eyeballing it. Obviously, we could input it into a computer to try to develop a linear regression model to try to minimize the sum of the squared distances from the points to the line. But you can see it's pretty difficult. And some of you might be saying, well, this looks more like some type of an exponential...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
And some of you might be saying, well, this looks more like some type of an exponential. So maybe we could fit an exponential to it. So it could look something like that. And you wouldn't be wrong. But there is a way that we can apply our tools of linear regression to this data set. And the way we can is instead of plo...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
And you wouldn't be wrong. But there is a way that we can apply our tools of linear regression to this data set. And the way we can is instead of plotting x versus y, we can think about x versus the logarithm of y. So this is this exact same data set. You see the x values are the same. But for the y values, I just took...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So this is this exact same data set. You see the x values are the same. But for the y values, I just took the log base 10 of all of these. So 10 to the what power is equal to 2,307.23. 10 to the 3.36 power is equal to 2,307.23. I did that for all of these data points. I did it on a spreadsheet.
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
So 10 to the what power is equal to 2,307.23. 10 to the 3.36 power is equal to 2,307.23. I did that for all of these data points. I did it on a spreadsheet. And if you were to plot all of these, something neat happens. All of a sudden, when we're plotting x versus the log of y or the log of y versus x, all of a sudden ...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
I did it on a spreadsheet. And if you were to plot all of these, something neat happens. All of a sudden, when we're plotting x versus the log of y or the log of y versus x, all of a sudden it looks linear. Now, be clear. The true relationship between x and y is not linear. It looks like some type of an exponential rel...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Now, be clear. The true relationship between x and y is not linear. It looks like some type of an exponential relationship. But the value of transforming the data, and there's different ways you can do it. In this case, the value of taking the log of y and thinking about it that way is now we can use our tools of linea...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
But the value of transforming the data, and there's different ways you can do it. In this case, the value of taking the log of y and thinking about it that way is now we can use our tools of linear regression. Because this data set, you could actually fit a linear regression line to this quite well. You could imagine a...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
You could imagine a line that looks something like this. It would fit the data quite well. And the reason why you might wanna do this versus trying to fit an exponential is because we've already developed so many tools around linear regression and hypothesis testing around the slope and confidence intervals. And so thi...
Transforming nonlinear data More on regression AP Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
She randomized 50 workdays between a treatment group and a control group. For each day from the treatment group, she took bus A, and for each day from the control group, she took bus B. Each day, she timed the length of her drive. This is really interesting what she did. It's very important. She randomized the 50 workd...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
This is really interesting what she did. It's very important. She randomized the 50 workdays. It's important she did this instead of just kind of waking up in the morning and just deciding on her own which bus to take because humans are infamously bad at being random. Even when we think we're being random, we're actual...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
It's important she did this instead of just kind of waking up in the morning and just deciding on her own which bus to take because humans are infamously bad at being random. Even when we think we're being random, we're actually not that random. She might inadvertently be taking bus A earlier in the week where maybe th...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Remember, there's a natural tendency for human beings to want to confirm their hypothesis. If she thinks that bus A is faster, maybe she'll want to pick the days where she'll get data to confirm her hypothesis. It's really important that she randomized the 50 workdays. What I can imagine she did is maybe she wrote each...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
What I can imagine she did is maybe she wrote each of the workdays, the dates, on a piece of paper. She would have 50 pieces of paper, and then she turned them all upside down, or maybe she closed her eyes, and then she moved them all over her table. Then with her eyes closed, she randomly moved them to either the left...
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If they move to the left of the table, then those are the days she'll take bus A. If she moves them to the right of the table, those are the days she takes bus B. That's how she can make sure that this is truly random. All right. Then they tell us, the results, this is important, the results of the experiment show that...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
All right. Then they tell us, the results, this is important, the results of the experiment show that the median travel duration for bus A is eight minutes less than the median travel duration for bus B. Or one way to think about it, if we said the treatment group median minus the control group median, what would we ge...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Well, the treatment group is eight minutes less than the control group. This is A, this is B. If this is eight less than this, then this is going to be equal to negative eight. This is just another way of restating what I have underlined right over here. Someone's car alarm went off. I hope you're not hearing that. Any...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
This is just another way of restating what I have underlined right over here. Someone's car alarm went off. I hope you're not hearing that. Anyway, I'll try to pay attention while it's going off. To test whether the results could be explained by random chance, she created the table below, which summarizes the results o...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Anyway, I'll try to pay attention while it's going off. To test whether the results could be explained by random chance, she created the table below, which summarizes the results of 1,000 re-randomizations of the data, with differences between medians rounded to the nearest five minutes. What is going on over here? You...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
You might say, well, look, she got her result that she wanted to get. She sees this data seems to confirm that bus A gets her to work faster. What's all this other business with re-randomizations she's doing? Well, the important thing to realize is, and she realizes this, is that she might have just gotten this data th...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Well, the important thing to realize is, and she realizes this, is that she might have just gotten this data that I underlined by random chance. There's some chance maybe A and B are completely similar in terms of how long they take in reality, and she just happened to pick bus A on days where bus A got to work faster....
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What she's doing here is she re-randomized the data, and she wants to see, well, with all this re-randomized data, out of these 1,000 re-randomizations, what fraction of them do I get a result like this? Do I get a result where A is eight minutes or more faster, I guess, or you could say that the median travel duration...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Those are the ones that confirm our hypothesis that bus A gets to work faster. Let's look at this table. It's not below. It's actually to the right. Let's just remind ourselves what she did here because the first time you try to process this, it can seem a little bit daunting. In her experiment, let me write this down,...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
It's actually to the right. Let's just remind ourselves what she did here because the first time you try to process this, it can seem a little bit daunting. In her experiment, let me write this down, experiment, the car alarm outside, which you probably, hopefully, are not hearing. It's actually a surprisingly pleasant...
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It's actually a surprisingly pleasant-sounding car alarm. It sounds like a slightly obnoxious bird. Anyway, her experiment is, the way I described it, 25 days she would take bus A, 25 days she took bus B, and she would record all the travel times. Let's say that I just have 25 data points in each column. Let's say you ...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Let's say that I just have 25 data points in each column. Let's say you get 12 minutes, 20 minutes, 25 minutes, and you just keep going. There's 25 data points. Let's just say that there are 12 data points less than 20 minutes and 12 data points more than 20 minutes. In this circumstance, her median time for bus A woul...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Let's just say that there are 12 data points less than 20 minutes and 12 data points more than 20 minutes. In this circumstance, her median time for bus A would be 20 minutes. I just made this number up. In order for this to be eight minutes less than the median time for bus B, the median for bus B, we would have to be...
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In order for this to be eight minutes less than the median time for bus B, the median for bus B, we would have to be 28. Maybe you have data points here. Maybe this is 18. You have 12 more that are less than 28. Then you have 12 more that are greater than 28. The median time for bus B would be 28. Once again, I just ma...
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You have 12 more that are less than 28. Then you have 12 more that are greater than 28. The median time for bus B would be 28. Once again, I just made this data up. If you took treatment group median, and I'll just write TGM for short, TGM minus control group median, what do you get? 20 minus 28 is negative eight. This...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Once again, I just made this data up. If you took treatment group median, and I'll just write TGM for short, TGM minus control group median, what do you get? 20 minus 28 is negative eight. This is the actual results of, these are theoretical or potential results, hypothetical results, for her actual experiment. What's ...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
This is the actual results of, these are theoretical or potential results, hypothetical results, for her actual experiment. What's all this business over here? What she did is she took these times and she said, you know what, let's just imagine a world where I could have gotten any of these times randomly on either bus...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
She just randomly resorted them between A and B. She did that a thousand times. The first time, the second time, the third time, and she does this 1,000 times. I'm assuming she used some type of a computer program to do it. Each time, once again, she just took the data that she had and she just rearranged it. She just ...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
I'm assuming she used some type of a computer program to do it. Each time, once again, she just took the data that she had and she just rearranged it. She just reshuffled it. Maybe A on one day, maybe it gets this 18, maybe it gets the 25, maybe it gets a 30. Once again, so we've got the 18, the 25, and the 30, and may...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Maybe A on one day, maybe it gets this 18, maybe it gets the 25, maybe it gets a 30. Once again, so we've got the 18, the 25, and the 30, and maybe B gets the, and she's reshuffling all this other data points that I just have with dots, and maybe B, let's see, she got the 18, 25, and 30, maybe 12, 20, and 28. In this c...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
It's going to be equal to positive five. In this random shuffling, this hypothetical scenario, bus A's median would have been five minutes more, longer than bus B's. If she gets this result with this random resorting, this would have been, and this is actually a, she would have had a column here for five, and then she ...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
But then if she got this again, then she would have put a two here, and then she should have said, okay, in how many of these random reshufflings am I getting a scenario where there's a five-minute difference, or where the treatment group is five minutes longer? So what is this saying? So for example, this is saying th...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
There were 159 times where the treatment group, once again, in her random reshuffling, these aren't based on observations, these are random reshufflings, there's 159 times where her treatment group is four minutes slower than her control group. So the whole reason for doing this is she says, okay, what's the probabilit...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Well, this scenario is this one right over here, and then another one where the treatment group is even faster is this right over here. Here the treatment group median is 10 less than the control group median. So in how many of these scenarios out of the 1,000 is this occurring? Well, this one occurs 85 times, this one...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Well, this one occurs 85 times, this one occurs eight, so if you add these two together, 93 out of the 1,000 times out of her re-randomization, or I guess you could say 9.3% of the time, if the data, 9.3% of the randomized, in the 1,000 re-randomizations, 9.3% of the time she got data that was as validating of a hypoth...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Now, a question is, well, what's the threshold? If it was a 50%, you say, okay, this was, you know, very likely to happen by chance. If this was a 25%, you're like, okay, it's less likely to happen by chance, but it could happen. 9.3%, I mean, it's roughly 10%, you know, for every 10 people who do an experiment like sh...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
9.3%, I mean, it's roughly 10%, you know, for every 10 people who do an experiment like she did, one person, even if it was random, one person would get data like this. So what typically happens among statisticians is they draw a threshold, and the threshold for statistical significance is usually 5%. So one way to thi...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3
Now, if your cutoff for significance is 5%, if you say, okay, this has to be 5% or less, then you say, okay, this is not statistically significant. There's a more than a 5% chance that I could have gotten this result purely through random chance. Now, once again, that just depends on where you have that threshold. So w...
Statistical significance on bus speeds Probability and Statistics Khan Academy.mp3