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Jason Leung The Chinese University of Hong Kong
If data is skewed, using mean +/- standard deviation or mean +/- standard
error is not good, becasue mean is distorted. You may present median
and interquartile range(IQR) or median and range (min, max)
Aug 15, 2013
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Means and standard deviation (or standar errors) are not appropriate for
reporting data analyzed by nonparametric statistics as they will not
provide a useful description of the location and range of the data. You
should use median with range or interquartile range.
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Limit Theorem according to which the distribution os the sampling means
of all the samples with the same size tends to be Gaussian with the
standard error as a measure of the variability of the MEANS.
Finally, using +/- standard errors you will give a biased impression of the
data variability and this has to, obviuosly, avoided.
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