I’ve lost count of the lesson numbers. The definition of a p-value, here phrased in the incorrectly named “test of difference in means”, is: Given the truth of a probability model used […]
What Do You Really Want: Part II
Class is, thank God, rapidly coming to an end. I am sure we are all grateful. Here’s an addendum to yesterday; but only briefly explained. Because of the crush of the end […]
Statistics as Beauty; Global Warming Miscellany; SATs Biased?; More
Statistics is Beautiful? From reader Yeah, Yeah comes a link to a Wired article which assures us we should “Learn the Language of Data.” It’s not a pretty language, but it can […]
In Defense of Dogmatism
In so far as I have a coherent philosophy of statistics, I hope it is “robust” enough to cope in principle with the whole of statistics, and sufficiently undogmatic not to imply […]
Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Since I am, by nature, a compassionate individual, I had been thinking of how we might Sokal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). It is for their own good. […]
Causality: Guest Post by DAV
Today’s guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web’s blogs it’s not uncommon to encounter the […]
I’m Happy To Help, Judith Curry: Overconfidence In IPCC’s Detection And Attribution
Thanks to reader Roger Cohen for brining this to my attention. Atmospheric scientist Judith Curry recently ran a series of blog posts entitled, “Overconfidence in IPCC’s detection and attribution.” In Part III […]
Are We In The Midst Of A Global Extinction Event?
“All Life Ends! Amphibians, Cartilaginous Fishes Hardest Hit.” That was the headline yesterday in newspapers all over the country as editors reacted to a press release from Science magazine which described a […]
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