alterlab-statistical-analysis

alterlab-statistical-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for choosing and running statistical tests, checking their assumptions, measuring study power, and writing results in APA style. It covers tests such as t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, regression, correlation, and Bayesian analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select tests, check normality and other assumptions, calculate sample sizes and effect sizes, compare statistical approaches, and prepare academic research reports.
Why use it?
It helps prevent choosing a test that does not fit the question or the data. Assumption checks, effect sizes, confidence intervals, and power analysis make results easier to interpret and plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-data-science plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to select tests, check normality and other assumptions, calculate sample sizes and effect sizes, compare statistical approaches, and prepare academic research reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-statistical-analysis
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-statistical-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-data-science, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,901 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00074 $0.01901
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00190

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0cd7f4566a26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-statistical-analysis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/assumption_checks.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/data-science/alterlab-statistical-analysis/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Statistical Analysis

Overview

A systematic process for testing hypotheses and quantifying relationships. Conduct hypothesis tests (t-test, ANOVA, chi-square), regression, correlation, and Bayesian analyses with assumption checks and APA reporting. For academic research.

When to Use This Skill

Use when:

  • Conducting hypothesis tests (t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square)
  • Performing regression or correlation analyses
  • Running Bayesian statistical analyses
  • Checking statistical assumptions and diagnostics
  • Calculating effect sizes and conducting power analyses
  • Reporting statistical results in APA format

Core Capabilities

  1. Test selection & planning — choose tests by research question and data type; a priori power analysis; multiple-comparison strategy.
  2. Assumption checking — verify normality, homogeneity, linearity; diagnostic plots; remediation when violated.
  3. Statistical testing — parametric and non-parametric tests; regression; correlation; Bayesian alternatives with Bayes Factors.
  4. Effect sizes & interpretation — appropriate effect sizes with CIs; statistical vs. practical significance.
  5. Professional reporting — APA-style reports, publication-ready figures and tables.

Workflow

SELECT a test?      → Test Selection Guide
CHECK assumptions?  → Assumption Checking
RUN analysis?       → Running Statistical Tests + references/code_examples.md
REPORT results?     → Reporting Results + references/apa_report_templates.md

Worked code for every step is in references/code_examples.md.

Test Selection Guide

Quick reference (full decision tree: references/test_selection_guide.md):

Two groups — independent + normal → independent t-test; independent + non-normal → Mann-Whitney U; paired + normal → paired t-test; paired + non-normal → Wilcoxon signed-rank; binary outcome → chi-square or Fisher's exact.

3+ groups — independent + normal → one-way ANOVA; independent + non-normal → Kruskal-Wallis; paired + normal → repeated-measures ANOVA; paired + non-normal → Friedman.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 183 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 0cd7f4566a26

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alterlab-statistical-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,901 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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