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Re:Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Co... by tansey on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @02:57PM (#2603946)
We are looking at a time-based analysis of the monthly means of PG and the HN community. The null hypothesis is that the slope of a regression line should be 0. Since we are dealing with a time-based analysis of the mean, the variance of each bucket is irrelevant. I re-ran the analysis to make sure that my results were statistically significant:

Anxiety/Confidence PG: p <= 0.0007 HN: p <= 0.0001

Hostility/Compassion PG: p <= 0.0005 HN: p <= 0.0001

Depression/Happiness PG: p <= 0.0067 HN: p <= 0.0001

Note that for the HN comments, even though I used a 2nd order (parabola) fit for the graphs, the p values above are for a linear regression as that is the more appropriate fit for determining statistical significance here.

Re:Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Co... by vecter on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @10:32PM (#2605674)
p values only make sense when the residuals are normal and independent. Is that true for this data set?