Making sense of dwelling data

on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 12:54 | by Anders Eriksson

Mean or median?

UnpunishedPunished
1001
13
1,21
0,52
0,35
5
Mean182,4
Median1,12

A highly hypothetical scenario of how the distribution of dwelling times could be. Even if unrealistic, it still illustrates the problem of using median instead of mean.

Plotting the dwelling times as means

An example fly of how the dwelling times are distributed over the different periods.

Grouped analysis of dwelling times

Cumming estimation plot

Used the R package Dabestr to plot the estimation statistics. The effect size and 95% CIs are plotted a separate axes
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