Statistics for HCI

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      • Chapter 1: Introduction
      • Chapter 2: The unexpected wildness of random
      • Chapter 3: Properties of randomness
      • Chapter 4: Characterising randomness through probability distributions
      • Chapter 5: Probing the unknown
      • Chapter 6: Traditional statistics
      • Chapter 7: Bayesian methods.
      • Chapter 8: Common issues
      • Chapter 9: Differences and distinctions
      • Chapter 10: Empirical and simulation methods — beyond fixed tests
      • Chapter 11: Big Data — seeing through the forest
      • Chapter 12: AI — intelligence but not as we know it
      • Chapter 13: Gaining power — the dreaded ‘too few participants’
      • Chapter 14: So what? — making sense of results
      • Chapter 15: Moving forward: the future of statistics in HCI
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      • Chapter 1: Introduction
      • Chapter 2: The unexpected wildness of random
      • Chapter 3: Properties of randomness
      • Chapter 4: Characterising the random through probability distributions
      • Chapter 5: Probing the unknown
      • Chapter 6: Traditional statistics
      • Chapter 7: Bayesian methods
      • Chapter 8: Common issues
      • Chapter 9: Differences and distinctions
      • Chapter 10: Gaining power — the dreaded ‘too few participants’
      • Chapter 11: So what? — making sense of results
      • Chapter 12: Moving forward: the future of statistics in HCI
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table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The unexpected wildness of random
  3. Properties of randomness
  4. Characterising randomness through probability distributions
  5. Probing the unknown
  6. Traditional statistics
  7. Bayesian methods.
  8. Common issues
  9. Differences and distinctions
  10. Empirical and simulation methods – beyond fixed tests
  11. Big Data – seeing through the forest
  12. AI – intelligence but not as we know it
  13. Gaining power – the dreaded ‘too few participants’
  14. So what? – making sense of results
  15. Moving forward: the future of statistics in HCI