TY - GEN
T1 - Making sense of statistics in HCI
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017
AU - Dix, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
PY - 2017/5/6
Y1 - 2017/5/6
N2 - Many find statistics confusing, and perhaps more so given recent publicity of problems with traditional pvalues and alternative statistical techniques including confidence intervals and Bayesian statistics. This course aims to help attendees navigate this morass: to understand the debates and more importantly make appropriate choices when designing and analysing experiments, empirical studies and other forms of quantitative data.
AB - Many find statistics confusing, and perhaps more so given recent publicity of problems with traditional pvalues and alternative statistical techniques including confidence intervals and Bayesian statistics. This course aims to help attendees navigate this morass: to understand the debates and more importantly make appropriate choices when designing and analysing experiments, empirical studies and other forms of quantitative data.
KW - Bayesian statistics
KW - Evaluation, hypothesis testing
KW - Human-computer interaction
KW - Statistics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85019593853
U2 - 10.1145/3027063.3027109
DO - 10.1145/3027063.3027109
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019593853
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1236
EP - 1239
BT - CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
ER -