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…
New paper from Ioannidis suggests fMRI studies of sex differences suffer from publication bias (https://t.co/944KKGSpWG). This is a big issue, leading to inaccurate conceptions and poor policy. Also, this is not an isolated finding...
This thread by @danengber gives a thoughtful overview of the much-hyped report on reproducibility by the National Association of Scholars, a conservative group. It shows the report has much sense to it, some non-sense, and some invidious use of rigor issues to de-regulate
I'll be curious to see reactions to this report on "The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science." Most of it (~80%) is entirely in line with honest efforts to promote open, reproducible research. Highlights in this thread: https://t.co/bDrT34M81N
New Stats blog: Badges, Badges, Badges: Open Science on the March https://t.co/LNy1tFrOL7
New Stats blog: ITNS–A New Review on Amazon https://t.co/izCG6d9C9p
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