One of the great things about working in statistics is that you can play in other people’s backyards. After all, just about every scientific discipline uses statistics. So I enjoyed giving an invited talk at the recent annual conference of…
Introduction to the New Statistics
The online community and blog for ITNS
Month: November 2016
Toward cumulative science– the curate science database
One of the themes of the New Statistics is the importance of constantly synthesizing research results. Putting results together is a form of cumulative science, it helps us weigh all the evidence, provides more precise estimates of effect sizes, and…
“Corrupt research” – Quite a book title
I’ve just finished reading a great book: Hubbard, R. (2015). Corrupt research. Sage. I’ve just given it a five-star review on Amazon. In brief, Hubbard is highly–as in extremely highly–critical of the conventional ‘significant difference’ paradigm, centred on finding p…
What Pierre says, from Paris
Pierre Dragicevic (that’s his pic of a scary die!) is a super-interesting and enthusiastic researcher in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) based at the Université Paris-Sud, an hour or so south of Paris. He is a researcher in the AVIZ Visual Analytics Project. He hosts…
#SIPS2018 is so soon. Shame there is no neuroscience equivalent.. SINS would be great name and neuro really needs it.
Gigerenzer with a great overview of widespread statistical fallacies and how they contribute to poor research: https://t.co/huW3drEnD7
New Stats blog: Effect Sizes for Open Science https://t.co/AcSiNVzTQE
Thinking in effect sizes, my latest in a series on stats education, is now out in JUNE. My favorite part is getting to tell the story of how focusing on effect sizes helped my lab optimize protocols to do more reliable research with fewer animals. https://t.co/FJAVJbPsfB
Hey look: replication research spurs a lab to test additional hypotheses and work out an important methodological moderator! Who could have guessed that direct replication might turn out to be useful in spurring scientific progress? https://t.co/Ccx8shR2Mm
A soon-to-be citation classic from my amazing colleague @Fernie103
Name Norms: A Guide to Casting Your Next Experiment https://t.co/b39XRSm9G1
Helpful when choosing names in your next vignette.
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