“Say, Briggs. Since you’re Statistician to the Stars!, explain to me how I can tell if two means are different in a simple way that even I can understand.” You got two […]
We last did third-hand smoking back in 2011. Even then I didn’t think the concept would far. How silly can you get? Pretty silly. Thanks to Dan Hughes we have the peer-reviewed […]
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, …I’d still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the word probability. […]
This is part II of contributor William Raynor’s request at defining p-values without using the word probability. This assumes you read and assimilated Part I. First, a clarification from Ryanor: A context […]
The only thing right about that new Sturgis Biker paper everybody is talking about is the opening quotation from somebody calling himself Smash Mouth (asterisks original): “Now we’re all here together tonight. […]
Thanks to the Wrath of Gnon, we have this report: Sorry, wrong number: Statistical benchmark comes under fire, from Phys.org. Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge […]
Received this email from Valentin Amrhein et al. about the efforts to jettison for all time “significance”. And replace it (say I) with this. If only I could get the powers that […]
Video Link The Epidemiologist Fallacy marries the Ecological Fallacy with the P-value Fallacy. The Ecological Fallacy is when it is said X causes Y, but X is not measured, and instead a […]
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