Alterlab Statistical Analysis
Skill Verified ActivePart of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
To assist academic researchers in choosing and performing appropriate statistical tests, validating data assumptions, and generating professional, APA-style reports.
Features
- Guided statistical test selection
- Automated assumption checking (normality, variance, linearity)
- Power analysis and sample size determination
- APA-style statistical reporting
- Support for various tests (t-tests, ANOVA, regression, Bayesian)
- Comprehensive reference materials and examples
Use Cases
- When needing help choosing the right statistical test for data.
- When requiring assistance with checking statistical assumptions.
- When needing to perform power analysis for study planning.
- When generating APA-formatted results and figures for publications.
Non-Goals
- Implementing specific statistical models programmatically (recommendation: use statsmodels).
- Performing raw data manipulation beyond what's needed for analysis.
- Providing a general-purpose data analysis platform.
Trust
- info:Issues Attention2 issues opened, 0 closed in the last 90 days, indicating maintainer responsiveness may be slow or infrequent.
Installation
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
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