Posted inPhilosophy
Statistics’ dirtiest secret
The old saying that "You can prove anything using statistics" isn't true. It is a lie, and a damned lie, at that. It is an ugly, vicious, scurrilous distortion, undoubtedly…
Posted inStatistics
Do not calculate correlations after smoothing data
This subject comes up so often and in so many places, and so many people ask me about it, that I thought a short explanation would be appropriate. You may…
How many false studies in medicine are published every year?
Many, even most, studies that contain a statistical component use frequentist, also called classical, techniques. The gist of those methods is this: data is collected, a probability model for that…