Probably Overthinking It#
This site contains the Jupyter notebooks I used in my preparation of Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions.
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Before you read these notebooks, please keep in mind:
There is some explanatory text in the notebooks, but some of the examples will not make sense until you have read the corresponding chapter in the book.
While preparing these notebooks, I made some changes to improve the readability of the code. There might be small differences between what appears in the book and what you get when you run the code.
Chapter 1
Run the code that prepares the BRFSS data
Run the code that prepares the Big Five data
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Run the code that prepares the BRFSS data
Run the code that prepares the NSFG data
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Run the code that prepares the NCHS data
Chapter 8
Run the code that prepares the earthquake data
Run the code that prepares the solar flare data