Naked Statistics: Stripping The Dread From The Data by Charles Wheelan describes the proper ways to employ statistical analysis, as well as incorrect or misleading uses of the discipline. The author ...

A typical journal article contains the results of only one analysis pipeline, by one set of analysts. Even in the best of circumstances, there is reason to think that judicious alternative analyses ...

A statistical analysis of the distribution of returns can be used to determine many key characteristics of a stock's behavior. Volatility is not the only useful measure of risk that can be determined ...

MODERN statistical analysis, particularly that relating to the production of adequate and exact tests of significance, owes much to the painstaking researches of R. A. Fisher, whose text-book, ...