Understanding Statistical Power Made Simple 📊

Statistical Power is one of those things that sounds so fancy and, well, "Powerful", but it's actually a really simple concept and this video explains it so it's clear as day.

NOTE: This StatQuest assumes that you are already familiar with p-values and the normal distribution. If not, check out the 'Quests...
p-values: What they are and how to interpret them: https://youtu.be/vemZtEM63GY
How to calculate p-values: https://youtu.be/JQc3yx0-Q9E
The normal distribution: https://youtu.be/rzFX5NWojp0

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0:00 Awesome song and introduction
0:37 Concepts of Statistical Power
3:19 Definition of Statistical Power
4:57 Overlap and Statistical Power
6:35 Sample size and Statistical Power
7:03 Summary of concepts

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