Blogs sometimes either elicit lots of comments, or they don’t. While writing, I’m always wondering how readers might react, what they (you) might be thinking. In my most recent post I asked about experiences or thoughts readers might have about …
I’ve been a bit obsessed with the forest plot for, I’d guess, close to 20 years. Partly because I love pictures, partly because the forest plot can tell us so much. I regard it as the beautiful face of meta-analysis. …
I’m delighted to report that our symposium proposed for the APS Convention next May has been accepted. (BTW if you visit that site for the Convention, note the happy people in the top centre pic–our panel from the 2017 Convention.) …
This isn’t a statistics post–it’s about Bob’s neuroscience research. Most long-term memories are ‘forgotten’–meaning that recall becomes less and less likely. Psychologists have long known, though, that forgetting is complex, and that fragments of a memory can remain. For example, …
Joe Tex sang it well: You’ve got to build your love on a solid foundation. Applied to science: you should build a research program that is robust, generative, and fruitful.. a solid foundation for exploring the hidden mechanisms at work …
I’ve written before about this year’s meeting of SIPS. My colleague Fiona Fidler reported that it was “probably the best conference I’ve ever been to”. Fiona also reports that the closing address at the meeting was a personal story told …
“Scientific Method for the Twenty-First Century: A World Beyond p
In May this year at the APS Convention in Boston, Bob and I ran a symposium with the title From NHST to The New Statistics: How do We Get There? It was great fun. There is a summary here. Next …
This fall I (Bob) was invited to give a talk at Indiana University as part of a series on good science and statistical practice organized by the university’s Social Science Research Commons (SSRC). The SSRC is like a core facility …
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As Bob mentioned in his post earlier today, he’s at SfN17, the enormous (30,000+ folks) Neuroscience meeting happening now in Washington DC. Here’s how the SfN site describes the meeting: “SfN’s 47th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2017, is the world’s largest …