Streuspanne – Statistics and Its Curiosities

Today's short episode of the Streuspanne podcast is about the European Parliament elections. The special is under the bold statement: »There is no shift to the right. Unfortunately. – The AfD in the European elections since 2014«. The focus of the discussion is – following on from the last episode – the wording of the media in connection with statistics and why we need a real positive shift.

The new Streuspanne episode deals with a hot topic: the police crime statistics – PKS (Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik acronym in German). These are published every year by the Federal Criminal Police Office and often attract a lot of media attention. The data on the origin of the perpetrators in particular is often used for striking headlines.

Our »Streuspanne Lexicon« is not a regular series, but a section to refer to small explanations without having to go on and on in a separate series. Today we continue with »F wie Freiheitsgrade« (English: D for Degrees of Freedom)

Today we continue the »Streuspanne Lexicon« with the entry »K wie kritische Werte« (English: C for Critical Values). Our lexicon is not a regular episode, but a section to refer to short explanations without having to go into detail again and again in a separate episode. The podcast team explains a term briefly and concisely in just a few minutes.

How much do you earn in rock music? Whether your answer will be »several million« or »that's breadless art« often has less to do with the question itself than with your own individual distortions and errors in thinking – the statistical noise.

Our »Streuspanne Lexicon« is not a regular series, but a section to refer to small explanations without having to go on and on in a separate series. Today we continue with »M for Mean« and »M for Median«. The Streuspanne team explains briefly why not all »means« are the same.

The new podcast episode is all about »p-values«, also known as empirical significance. The »Streuspanne« team uses statistics from the Wild West to explain what this is all about and how you can test whether a die is loaded, for example.

Today's »Streuspanne-Lexicon« entry is about what you need the binomial distribution for and what it actually is. As usual: explained briefly and clearly – in under five minutes.

In the new Streuspanne episode, representatives of the two largest schools of statistical thought face each other in a discussion. The team playfully introduces the audience to the two approaches to calculating probability: on the one hand, Jochen Fiedler slips into the role of Mr. Bayes for Bayesian statistics and on the other hand, Sascha Feth plays Mr. Frequentist, who speaks for the frequentist school of thought.

Our German »Streuspanne Lexicon« is not a regular series, but a section to refer to small explanations without having to go on and on in a separate series. Today we continue with »C for Confidence Interval«. The Streuspanne team briefly and concisely explains the confidence interval.