Statistical hypothesis testing

• Statistical significance
• Type I and type II errors

Methods

• Mann–Whitney U test is a non-parametric test “for assessing whether two independent samples of observations have equally large values.”
• Kolmogorov Smirnov test is a non-parametric test for comparing probability distributions.
• Mantel test is for comparing two matrices (usually distance or interrelation matrix).

Articles

• Too Good to Be True: Statistics may say that women wear red when they’re fertile … but you can’t always trust statistics by Andrew Gelman
• There is only one test!
  • There is still only one test