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というNBER論文が上がっている(H/T タイラー・コーエン)。原題は「How Credible is the Credibility Revolution?」で、著者はKevin Lang(ボストン大)。 以下は本文からの引用…
というNBER論文が上がっている(H/T タイラー・コーエン)。原題は「How Credible is the Credibility Revolution?」で、著者はKevin Lang(ボストン大)。 以下は本文からの引用…
A recent commentary in Nature has the provocative title “Retire Statistical Significance” (1, with a list of more than 800…
I think it’s very sneaky of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration to have released two new…
‘Good statistical understanding is not the exclusive territory of professional statisticians’ Richard Stevens, Director of the…
This fortune cookie could start a few scuffles. It's offering a cheerful scenario if you are looking for a benefit of a…
Here are some articles for the project for the graduate crash course on probability and statistics, The garden of forking paths…
Jump to follow-up This piece is almost identical with today’s Spectator Health article. This week there has been enormously…
But it is Much WorseRoss Pomeroy’s article in yesterday’s Real Clear Science was a much needed reminder about the dangers of…
The first dropped shoe announced the “collapse” of science. It clearly dropped with a loud bang as this “news” has become a…
Jump to follow-up The "supplement" industry is a scam that dwarfs all other forms of alternative medicine. Sales are worth over …
David Colquhoun, professor of pharmacology at UCL, has a new essay over at Aeon opining about the problems with p-values. A…
Interesting article in Aeon on why p-values may not be the best way to determine the probability we are observing a real effect…
Would I lie to you? Until a year ago very few people had ever heard of Martin Shkreli. In 2015 the then-32-year-old CEO of…
The consequences of recent criticisms of statistical tests have breathed brand new life into some very old howlers, many of…
‘We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it’. That is the title of a post in…
This post arose from a recent meeting at the Royal Society. It was organised by Julie Maxton to discuss the application of…
P-values are widely used in the social sciences, especially ‘big data’ studies, to calculate statistical significance. Yet they…
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Jump to follow-up “Statistical regression to the mean predicts that patients selected for abnormalcy will, on the average…
I know it’s a time for people to come together, eat, and get into conversation. Sometimes things can get contentious. Here’s a…
I’m guilty of getting this wrong, and it is likely you are too: If the p-value is <.05, then the probability of falsely…
(This article was first published on Nicebread » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) If the p-value is < .05…
Body in…
Chalkdust is a magazine published by students of maths from UCL Mathematics department. Judging by its first issue, it’s an…
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/3/140216"Never, ever, use the word ‘significant’ in a paper. It is arbitrary…
Ten years ago, a researcher claimed most published research findings are false; now a decade later, his claim is stronger than…
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There is a widespread belief that science is going through a crisis of reproducibility. A meeting was held to discuss the…
azaris writes: Recent revelations of heavily policy-driven or even falsified science have raised concern in the general public…
Jump to follow-up DOI: 10.15200/winn.142809.94999 The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the latest in a series of 6-yearly…
Time for another "watch those statistics" post. I did one about this time last year, and I could do one every couple of months…
Time for another "watch those statistics" post. I did one about this time last year, and I could do one every couple of months…
An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values | Open Science
Some posts and articles worth reading (now obtained almost automatically from my tweets) Roundup and ‘Gluten Intolerance’ http:…
(This article was first published on Freakonometrics » R-english, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) A few weeks ago…
A few weeks ago, I ask in a post the (simple) question “dear reader, who are you?” just to know more about the readers of my…
The iconic John Snow, often referred to as the "father of epidemiology," is commonly credited with discovering the cause of…
“If you use P=0.05 to suggest that you have made a discovery, you will be wrong at…
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think…
What is it that sets academic publications apart from articles on The Conversation? Peer review might be your first answer.
Sign up for The Ed’s Up—a weekly newsletter of my writing plus some of the best stuff from around the Internet. Top…
A peer-reviewed paper in a computational biology journal called “Ten simple rules for better figures.” Lisa Buckley explains “Why…
Some posts and articles worth…
p-value and Bayes are the two hottest words in Statistics. Actually I still can not get why the debate between frequentist …
p-value and Bayes are the two hottest words in Statistics. Actually I still can not get why the debate between frequentist …
This post follows directly from "Some pharmacological history: an exam from 1959". In that post, I related how two of my…
This post follows directly from "Some pharmacological history: an exam from 1959". In that post, I related how two of my…
Jump to follow-up What follows is a simplified version of part of a paper that appeared as a preprint on arXiv in July. It…
Simon Gandevia, Neuroscience Research…