Who said the UN doesn’t do anything useful? Courtesy of that august body, it’s World Statistics Day! Official statistics help decision makers develop informed policies that impact millions of people. Improved data […]
My mailbag is filling up. Today two questions from readers, both about statistics. Feel free to send yours in on any subject. Tomorrow is a doozy. Question 1 From reader Michael H. […]
Or, rather, wee p-values are idolized. And it isn’t just me saying so. Reader Dan Hughes points us to Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski’s peer-reviewed paper “Surrogate Science: The Idol of a […]
Freq Out Reader ECM points us to “The Great Statistical Schism“, by a fellow named Brendon Brewer who “is a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics in Auckland.” Brewer says, as […]
@A_NEVATHIR @Noahpinion @mattstat Sticking to logical probability doesn't tell us about the world, where do initial assignments come from?. — ?Deborah Mayo? (@learnfromerror) September 1, 2015 Short note today, because today, and […]
I received this query from a reader and thought it important enough for all of us to answer. I was hoping you could provide some advice for an aspiring statistician. I am […]
Cancer of the albondigas is horrifyingly under-diagnosed. See your doctor today and ask him if Profitizol is right for you. Today’s post, in a way, is at Arxiv: The Crisis Of Evidence: […]
New paper up at Arxiv, which is a sort of précis to some key chapters in my book most relevant to probability and statistical modeling. Abstract: There is a third way of […]
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