No fooling: The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties Workshop is Postponed to...
The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties Postponed to 22-23 September 2022 London School of Economics (CPNSS) Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University), Alexander Bird (University of Cambridge), Mark...
View ArticleInsevere Tests of Severe Testing (iv)
. One does not have evidence for a claim if little if anything has been done to rule out ways the claim may be false. The claim may be said to “pass” the test, but it’s one that utterly lacks...
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 ArticleHappy Birthday Neyman: What was Neyman opposing when he opposed the...
. Today is Jerzy Neyman’s birthday (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981). I’m reposting a link to a quirky, but fascinating, paper of his that explains one of the most misunderstood of his positions–what...
View ArticleJoin me in reforming the “reformers” of statistical significance tests
. The most surprising discovery about today’s statistics wars is that some who set out shingles as “statistical reformers” themselves are guilty of misdefining some of the basic concepts of error...
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