STATISTICS IN HUMAN ENGINEERING

This paper presents a discussion on the use and abuse of statistics in human engineering experiments. The topics briefly discussed include experimental design, statistical and practical significance, randomization and some aspects of the use of averages, distributions and correlation. A section is devoted to the reporting of experiments. Some notes about averaging of decibels and complex numbers are given in an appendix. /Author/TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Aircraft Establishment

  Farnborough,   England 
• Authors:
  • Maslen, W
• Publication Date: 1973-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 35 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis of variance; Average; Correlation analysis; Environment; Human factors; Mathematical models; Physiological tolerance; Regression analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics
• Old TRIS Terms: Mathematical studies
• ITRD Terms: 6549: Average; 6527: Correlation (math, stat); 6572: Distribution (stat); 2257: Human factor; 2051: Human tolerance; 6588: Regression analysis; 6555: Statistics; 6578: Variance analysis
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096662
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: EP548 Tech. Memo
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 1976 12:00AM