Paul R. Yarnold
Optimal Data Analysis, LLC
This note illustrates the disorder and confusion attributable to analytic ethos whereby a smorgasbord of different statistical tests are used to test identical or parallel statistical hypotheses. Herein four classic methods are used for an application with a binary class (dependent) variable and an ordered attribute (independent variable) measured using a five-point scale. Legacy methods reach different conclusions—which is correct? In absolute contrast, for a given sample and hypothesis novometric analysis identifies every statistically viable model (models vary as functions of precision and complexity) which reproducibly maximizes the predictive accuracy for the sample.
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