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Statistical rules of thumb Gerald van Belle
Publisher: Wiley

Not even the most brilliant statistician can instantly recall every rule and concept that forms the daily bread of statistical work. Statistics-in one handy reference. None of the three seem to follow the rule with any sort of consistency but they are all in the ballpark of the rule, but not by much. (Remember the sampling statistics rule of thumb of 2=4 that I have explained before wherein a halving of confidence interval error rate, say from 3% to 1.5%, requires a quadrupling of [] Reply. I always hear numbers thrown out about what you SHOULD be spending on various things. The Rule-Of-Thumb Personal Budget: 4-6-10-25-33. Here are four rules of thumb for converting English words in to Spanish. And on a less flippant note, I came across this essay by Norvig” yesterday, taking Chomsky to task on his rubbishing of statistical approaches to understanding languages compared to rule-based approaches. There are a lot of quality consultants out there touting "quick and dirty" statistical methods: easy ways to get an answer without all that inconvenient math. The numbers will follow but here are some takeaways (I didn't do any statistical analysis, this is just me eyeballing numbers and drawing conclusions that are probably not statistically significant): The rule of thumb is certainly good in terms of rules of thumb, I wouldn't follow it to the ends o f the Earth but it's definitely better than nothing. Words ending in For example, two exceptions to the third rule are that the Spanish word for translation is traducción and the word for explanation is explicación.