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I have scheduled this tutorial for 3.15pm on Tuesday 26 June 2007.  I will keep the tutorial strictly to an hour, during which I will aim to achieve the following:

- Convince you that misuse of null-hypothesis signficance testing is a widespread problem.  I will present examples from Australian mammal conservation, Bridge (the card game), lectures at SFI, gun control, infanticide and possibly more...

- Explain exactly what null-hypothesis significance testing can and can't tell you.

- Direct you towards techniques and literature that will improve your use of statistics.
Note that I will not go into the details of any particular statistical procedure.

[[Ryan Chisholm]]

I like this kind of stuff. Misuse of statistics is rampant in my field. -Mike

Sounds very interesting! I will attend. Mollie