Some statistical dirty laundry: have the stains become permanent?
. Right after our session at the SPSP meeting last Friday, I chaired a symposium on replication that included Brian Earp–an active player in replication research in psychology (Replication and...
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. 1. PhilSci and StatSci. I’m always glad to come across statistical practitioners who wax philosophical, particularly when Karl Popper is cited. Best of all is when they get the philosophy somewhere...
View ArticleGigerenzer at the PSA: “How Fisher, Neyman-Pearson, & Bayes Were Transformed...
. Gerd Gigerenzer, Andrew Gelman, Clark Glymour and I took part in a very interesting symposium on Philosophy of Statistics at the Philosophy of Science Association last Friday. I jotted down lots of...
View ArticleThieme on the theme of lowering p-value thresholds (for Slate)
. Here’s an article by Nick Thieme on the same theme as my last blogpost. Thieme, who is Slate’s 2017 AAAS Mass Media Fellow, is the first person to interview me on p-values who (a) was prepared to...
View ArticleStatistical skepticism: How to use significance tests effectively: 7...
Here are my slides from the ASA Symposium on Statistical Inference : “A World Beyond p < .05” in the session, “What are the best uses for P-values?”. (Aside from me,our session included Yoav...
View ArticleWhy significance testers should reject the argument to “redefine statistical...
. An argument that assumes the very thing that was to have been argued for is guilty of begging the question; signing on to an argument whose conclusion you favor even though you cannot defend its...
View ArticleNeyman-Pearson Tests: An Episode in Anglo-Polish Collaboration: Excerpt from...
Neyman & Pearson 3.2 N-P Tests: An Episode in Anglo-Polish Collaboration* We proceed by setting up a specific hypothesis to test, H0 in Neyman’s and my terminology, the null hypothesis in R. A....
View ArticleDon’t let the tail wag the dog by being overly influenced by flawed...
. An article [i],“There is Still a Place for Significance Testing in Clinical Trials,” appearing recently in Clinical Trials, while very short, effectively responds to recent efforts to stop error...
View ArticleMemory Lane (4 years ago): Why significance testers should reject the...
. An argument that assumes the very thing that was to have been argued for is guilty of begging the question; signing on to an argument whose conclusion you favor even though you cannot defend its...
View ArticleThe Statistics Wars and Intellectual Conflicts of Interest
. My editorial in Conservation Biology is published (open access): “The Statistical Wars and Intellectual Conflicts of Interest”. Share your comments, here and/or send a separate item (to Error), if...
View ArticleKent Staley: Commentary on “The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of...
. Kent Staley Professor Department of Philosophy Saint Louis University Commentary on “The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of interest” (Mayo editorial) In her recent Editorial for...
View ArticlePower howlers return as criticisms of severity
Mayo bangs head Suppose you are reading about a statistically significant result x that just reaches a threshold p-value α from a test T+ of the mean of a Normal distribution H0: µ ≤ 0 against H1: µ...
View Article5-year review: Don’t let the tail wag the dog by being overly influenced by...
. On June 1, 2019, I posted portions of an article [i],“There is Still a Place for Significance Testing in Clinical Trials,” in Clinical Trials responding to the 2019 call to abandon significance. I...
View ArticleNeyman-Pearson Tests: An Episode in Anglo-Polish Collaboration: (3.2)
Neyman & Pearson November Cruise: 3.2 This second of November’s stops in the leisurely cruise of SIST aligns well with my recent Neyman Seminar at Berkeley. Egon Pearson’s description of the three...
View ArticleCall for reader replacements! First Look at N-P Methods as Severe Tests:...
November Cruise Although the numbers used in the introductory example are fine, I’m unhappy with it and seek a replacement–ideally with the same or similar numbers. It is assumed that there is a...
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