3 Ninja Tricks for Statistical Analysis

Learning just three equations can make us pretty darn savvy, and help to protect our cookies.

I’m going to share three statistical tricks that can be deployed like throwing stars against confusing, overstated, and sensational headlines. These core concepts can be used to help us understand what’s being communicated and how important the findings really are. The three tricks are:

• relative risk reduction

• absolute risk reduction

• number needed to tre…