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be calculated for a binary variable? In a graph showing the progress over time of the probability to find a pathogen within plant tissues, I'm wondering if standard error binomial proportion standard deviation or standard error bars can be added. The probability to
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find the pathogen, is obtained dividing the number of findings (positive events) by the total number of attempts bernoulli standard deviation (total events). The probability in the graph is a mean of several replicates. If so, standard deviation should be square root of N*P*Q. How can the standard error be calculated? Topics
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Standard Error × 119 Questions 11 Followers Follow Standard Deviation × 237 Questions 19 Followers Follow Statistics × 2,242 Questions 89,808 Followers Follow Feb 8, 2013·Modified Feb 8, 2013 by the commenter. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ 1 / 0 Popular Answers Todd Mackenzie · Dartmouth College If one is estimating a proportion, x/n, e.g., the number of "successes", x, in binomial standard error calculator a number of trials, n, using the estimate, p.est=x/n, one formula for an estimate of the standard error is sqrt(p.est*(1-p.est)/n). This "behaves well" in large enough samples but for small samples may be unsatisfying. For instance, it equals zero if the proportion is zero. There are a number of alternatives which resolve this problem, such as using SE=sqrt(p.h*(1-p.h)/(n+1)) where p.h=(x+1/2)/(n+1). You might gain some insights by looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_interval Feb 8, 2013 Genelyn Ma. Sarte · University of the Philippines Diliman in a binomial experiment, the variable of interest is number of successes or positive results. this will be in the form of a sum of Bernoulli experiments which are assumed to be independent and identical. a Bernoulli random variable has variance=pq, hence a binomial random variable will have variance=npq because the variances of the Bernoulli experiments will just be additive. i wasn't able to follow all discussions in the thread, but i think your interest is not the sum of the successes but the mean or average success (which is sum of independent and identical Bernoulli experiments divided by th
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_ Cross Validated is a question and answer site for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and data visualization. Join binomial proportion confidence interval them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top How do I include measurement errors in a Bernoulli https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_standard_deviation_and_standard_error_be_calculated_for_a_binary_variable experiment? up vote 5 down vote favorite 1 I would like to understand how to combine a known measurement error in a Bernoulli experiment with the confidence interval in order to calculate error bars. I am performing an experiment that has two outcomes $0$ and $1$ with probabilities $p_0$ and $p_1 = 1-p_0$. If the measurements are perfect, the confidence interval for $N$ measurements is given by $$ \pm z \sqrt{\frac{p_1(1-p_1)}{N}}, $$ where $z=1.96$ for a $95\%$ confidence interval. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/158441/how-do-i-include-measurement-errors-in-a-bernoulli-experiment In my case however the measurements are imperfect so that with probability $\epsilon_0$ I measure $0$ when the system was really in the state $1$ and with probability $\epsilon_1$ I measure $1$ when the system was really in the state $0$. I assume I can initially prepare $0$ and $1$ perfectly, allowing me to find the errors $\epsilon_0$ and $\epsilon_1$, which I can then use to estimate $p_0$ and $p_1$ in subsequent experiments where the outcome is unknown. My question is therefore how do I combine the known measurement errors with the usual confidence interval? Any help or references would be greatly appreciated. confidence-interval binomial measurement-error share|improve this question asked Jun 24 '15 at 11:04 Joe 283 1 When you say that you can find the errors terms, is it why any desired precision or should we consider that they are estimated too (as p1) ? –brumar Jun 24 '15 at 12:02 Yes they are estimated too - I assume I prepare $0$ perfectly and then take $N$ measurements - $\epsilon_1$ is then the number of times I measure $1$ divided by $N$. I then do the same process after preparing $1$ to find $\epsilon_0$. –Joe Jun 24 '15 at 12:56 You should mention it into your question as - at first glance - the first answers did not take this into account. –brumar Jun 24 '15 at 13:39 add a c
standard deviation of binary? For the discussion of math. Duh. Moderators: gmalivuk, Moderators General, Prelates Post Reply Print view Search Advanced search 17 posts • Page 1 of 1 mosc Doesn't care what you think. Posts: 5315 Joined: Fri May 11, 2007 3:03 pm UTC http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?t=28102 standard deviation of binary? Quote Postby mosc » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:36 pm UTC http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/290/errorbars.html Basically I have a whole lot of data with a yes/no result. X runs and Z yesses. I can easily determine the average chance of a yes per run but I'm getting stuck on the standard deviation.Basically, if I flip a coin 100 times and get 53 heads, what's my + or - % error? My standard devation.This is not school related. standard error I'm trying to determine how accurate my drop rate analysis was for a video game. Title: It was given by the XKCD moderators to me because they didn't care what I thought (I made some rantings, etc). I care what YOU think, the joke is forums.xkcd doesn't care what I think. Top Xanthir My HERO!!! Posts: 5002 Joined: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:49 am UTC Location: The Googleplex Contact: Contact Xanthir Website Twitter Re: standard deviation of binary? bernoulli error bars Quote Postby Xanthir » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:41 pm UTC For a Bernoulli random variable (a variable with two outcomes, where one outcome has p chance and the other has (1-p) chance), the variance is just p(1-p). Standard deviation is the square root of the variance. (defun fibs (n &optional (a 1) (b 1)) (take n (unfold '+ a b))) Top mosc Doesn't care what you think. Posts: 5315 Joined: Fri May 11, 2007 3:03 pm UTC Re: standard deviation of binary? Quote Postby mosc » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:42 pm UTC so if it's 53/100my p=.53 Variance=.53(1-.53) = .2491standard deviation = sqrt(.2491) = ~.5so... I know the accuracy within .5? that's pretty bad considering it's 0 to 1my sample size is irrelevant? Title: It was given by the XKCD moderators to me because they didn't care what I thought (I made some rantings, etc). I care what YOU think, the joke is forums.xkcd doesn't care what I think. Top headprogrammingczar Posts: 3067 Joined: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:28 pm UTC Location: Beaming you up Re: standard deviation of binary? Quote Postby headprogrammingczar » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:29 pm UTC mosc wrote:Basically, if I flip a coin 100 times and get 53 heads, what's my + or - % error? My standard devation.This looks a lot like a misconception of what standard deviation is...
I. Why do we use errorbars? It is a crime to plot measures of central tendency without an indication of their variability. Enough said! II. What do we use as errorbars? There are pretty much two options: standard errors, or confidence intervals. These quantities are related. The confidence interval is the standard error multiplied by the critical value of a test statistic, which is either t or Z, depending on whether we know the population parameters or estimate them from a sample. The choice really depends upon your rhetorical intent: different things can be concluded from the errorbars, depending on what you choose to plot. Standard errors From an overlap, you can conclude no significant difference Approximately 68% confidence interval for population mean Difference between means is hard to evaluate Confidence intervals Can't draw conclusions from overlap Exact confidence interval for population mean Difference between means from multiplying by root 2 Most papers I've read recently plot standard errors. I suspect an ulterior motive... III. Errorbars for between-subject means We have two ways of estimating the standard error: a local and a global estimate. Again, it's up to you which one you use. If you're going to be using within-subjects errorbars subsequently, then it's best to use the global estimate for consistency. Local estimate of the standard error Global estimate of the standard error Remember to multiply by the critical value of your test-statistic if you want confidence intervals! IV. Errorbars for within-subject means
The trick is to think about what is the best estimate of the error variance. When you do a within-subjects ANOVA, the analogue of the MSE is the mean square for the interaction of subjects and the effect you're testing. Basically, if you want to show differences between means on the basis of some factor, replace the MSE in the equation for between-subject means with whatever appears in the denominator of your within-subjects F-ratio. V. Errorbars for categorical data Binomial data How do we work out the confidence interval on an estimate of the probability of an event? Let's say our estimate is p. What's the confidence interval on p? In general, we have where q = (1-p). Multinomial data It seems like things should get more complicated when we have more than two options. In fact, they don't. We work out the standard error in exactly the same way. There's a simple reason why this is true. Say we're interested in putting errorbars