5-year Review: B. Haig: [TAS] 2019 update on P-values and significance (ASA II)(Guest Post)
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This is the guest post by Bran Haig on July 12, 2019 in response to the “abandon statistical significance” editorial in The…
This is the guest post by Bran Haig on July 12, 2019 in response to the “abandon statistical significance” editorial in The…
. It was 3 months before I decided to write a blogpost in response to Wasserstein, Schirm and Lazar (2019)’s editorial in The…
Lay juries usually function well in assessing the relevance of an expert witness’s credentials, experience, command of the facts…
Ted Simon, a toxicologist and a fellow board member at the Center for Truth in Science, has posted an intriguing piece in which…
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Better approaches to making statistical decisionsPhoto by Rommel Davila on UnsplashIn establishing statistical significance…
In “Cheng’s Proposed Consensus Rule for Expert Witnesses,”[1] I discussed a recent law review article by Professor Edward K.
Is science in the throes of a “reproducibility crisis”? If someone followed the same methods, techniques, and reagents as your…
Edward K. Cheng is the Hess Professor of Law in absentia from Vanderbilt Law School, while serving this fall as a visiting…
One of the reasons that, in 2016, the American Statistical Association (ASA) issued, for the first time in its history, a…
This blog is based on the book of the same name by Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, and Oliver Mußhoff that was published in…
Although lawyers are known as a querulous lot, statisticians may not be far behind. The famous statistician John Wilder Tukey…
You put your right foot…
. Someone sent me an email the other day telling me that a disclaimer had been added to the editorial written by the ASA…
We are swimming in an ocean of misinformation. Science can point us toward the shoreline, but it will need help to get us there.
A version of this post appeared previously on Professor Deborah Mayo’s blog, Error Statistics Philosophy. The post was invited…
In my main field of research—antidepressant drugs for depression—a common reply to studies challenging the efficacy of these…
. Nathan Schachtman, Esq., J.D. Legal Counsel for Scientific…
Special Session of the (remote) Phil Stat Forum: 11 January…
I read a lot, but I am not very organized. Over the years, I have read thousands of papers about evidence based medicine and…
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[This article was first published on R Programming – DataScience+, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report…
P-values don’t mean what people think they mean; they rely on hidden assumptions that are unlikely to be fulfilled; they…
What is a p-value? You might be surprised to hear that the topic is hotly debated; that the mere mention of p-values can get a…
. The latest salvo in the statistics wars comes in the form of the publication of The ASA Task Force on Statistical…
Megan Higgs writes: The statement . . . describes establishment of the task force to “address concerns that a 2019 editorial in…
. What is the message conveyed when the board of a professional association X appoints a Task Force intended to dispel the…
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has finally spoken up about statistical significance testing.[1] Sort of. Back in…
Under the heading of “falsehood flies,” we have the attempt by the American Statistical Association (ASA) to correct…
The lawsuit industry spends many millions of dollars each year to persuade people that they are ill from the medications they…
A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the…
Medications are rigorously tested for safety and efficacy in clinical trials before approval by regulatory agencies such as the…
It is rare that one is able to publish a book as timely, given the confusion and hysteria surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, as…
Here is my guide to the most famous and yet most confusing concept in statistics: null hypothesis significance testing.Continue…
The following is a guest post from Jian Gao, PhD, Director of Analytical Methodologies, Office of Productivity, Efficiency and…
An approach that allows Product Leaders to bring their intuition into A/B tests.Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
“EBM 1.0 was riddled with bugs, does not function and is no longer supported. Continued use of EBM requires an update to EBM 2.0…
Dies ist der 27. Beitrag einer Blogserie zu „Schlüsselkonzepten zur besseren Bewertung von Aussagen zu Behandlungen“, die im…
Back in the summer of 2019, Judge Saylor, the MDL judge presiding over the Zofran birth defect cases, ordered epidemiologist, Dr.
. My “April 1” posts for the past 8 years have been so close to the truth or possible truth that they weren’t always spotted as…
Misunderstandings of p-values are common in research.Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Lawyers and judges pay close attention to standards, guidances, and consenus statements from respected and recognized…
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. “Before we stood on the edge of the precipice, now we have taken a great step forward” What’s self-defeating about…
Mayo banging…
. The October 2019 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Investigations came out today. It includes the PERSPECTIVE article…
A key recognition among those who write on the statistical crisis in science is that the pressure to publish attention-getting…
. Nathan Schachtman (who was a special invited speaker at our recent Summer Seminar in Phil Stat) put up a post on his law blog…
The American Statistical Association’s most recent confused and confusing communication about statistical significance testing…
Brian Haig, Professor…
Neyman Neyman, confronted with unfortunate news would always say “too bad!” At the end of Jerzy Neyman’s birthday week, I…
It seems like every week something of excitement in statistics comes down the pike. Last week I was contacted by Richard Harris …
Last week, the American Statistical Association (ASA) released a special issue of its journal, The American Statistician, with…
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It has been almost three years since the American Statistical Association (ASA) issued its statement on statistical significance.
Ship…
A good statistic is the one that you can understand. Mean values are understandable and everybody knows how to calculate them.
I came across an interesting letter in response to the ASA’s Statement on p-values that I hadn’t seen before. It’s by Ionides…
La explicación del tamaño de la cola del macho de pavo real también se debe a la aplicación que Fischer hizo de la estadística…
“Then time will tell just who…
It has been two and one-half years since the American Statistical Association (ASA) issued its statement on statistical…
Calculation and reporting of p-values is common in scientific publications and presentations (Cristea and Ioannidis, 2018).
We use metrics to assess everything, but measurement does not always equal wisdom.
We use metrics to assess everything, but measurement does not always equal wisdom.
In science, we’re used to suboptimal methods — because of limited time, resources, or technology. But one of our biggest…
I predicted that the degree of agreement behind the ASA’s “6 principles” on p-values , partial as it was,was unlikely to be…
In courtrooms across America, there has been a lot of buzzing and palavering about the American Statistical Association’s…
I recently read a paper by Stephen John with the title “Epistemic trust and the ethics of science communication: against…
A couple of years ago, Sander Greenland and I had an interesting exchange on Deborah Mayo’s website. I tweaked Sander for his…
It sounds almost absurd, but that could be one factor behind the so-called “reproducibility crisis” -- Read more on…
Despite widespread cautionary messages, p-values and claims of statistical significance are continuously misused. One of the…
I obviously agree that we have to follow the latest guidelines, I’m just worried if deviating from the convention may rub…
. ONE YEAR AGO: …and growing more relevant all the time. Rather than leak any of my new book*, I reblog some earlier posts…
If you think I’m the only locust eating prophet crying out in the desert against statistical significance, think again! I have…
I could have told them that the degree of accordance enabling the ASA’s “6 principles” on p-values was unlikely to be…
A good illustration of the muddles that p-values can get us in appeared recently on HealthNewsReview.com. HealthNewsReview…
I’m surprised it’s a year already since posting my published comments on the ASA Document on P-Values. Since then, there have…
David Blanco (UPC) recently prepared this video following the ASA statement and we wanted to share it with you. We…
There are often substantial gaps between the idealized and actual versions of those people whose work involves providing a…
There are often substantial gaps between the idealized and actual versions of those people whose work involves providing a…
The president of Olin College, Rick Miller, spoke recently at the Business Innovation Factory. Here's the most-tweeted quote…
A recent study making headlines around the world found that some early-stage breast cancer patients could avoid chemotherapy…
In 2011, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Matrixx Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano that investors could sue a drug…
P-values do not indicate whether a scientific finding is true. Statistical significance does not equal economic or clinical…
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This quarter I have been part of the teaching team for Research Design and Quantitative Methods, a core class in Evergreen's…
. In their “Comment: A Simple Alternative to p-values,” (on the ASA P-value document), Benjamin and Berger (2016) recommend…
In my Popper talk tomorrow today (in London), I will discuss topics in philosophy of statistics in relation to: the 2016 ASA…
. My “April 1” posts for the past 5 years have been so close to the truth or possible truth that they weren’t always spotted as…
Why a time-honoured statistical tool is becoming problematic. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" …
[Start] We are super stoked to announce that the OYM team will be at the Canadian Neuroscience meeting in Toronto this year…
One of my common refrains in research conference and here is that the misuse of P values has negative public health consequences…
. I could have told them that the degree of accordance enabling the “6 principles” on p-values was unlikely to be replicated…
We should not ignore that researchers – in general but also in supply chain management – are not always as properly trained to…
We should not ignore that researchers – in general but also in supply chain management – are not always as properly trained to…
We have recently commented on the flap in statistics circles about the misleading use of significance test results (p-values…