November, 2016 | Introduction to the New Statistics

Month: November 2016

What is (are) Human Factors?

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Geoff Cumming Posted in Applied research — No Comments ↓

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…

Toward cumulative science– the curate science database

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Bob C-J Posted in Open Science, Replication, Stats tools — No Comments ↓

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

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Geoff Cumming Posted in NHST, Open Science, The New Statistics — No Comments ↓

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

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Geoff Cumming Posted in Applied research, NHST — No Comments ↓

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…