When Benjamin Kuper-Smith kindly invited me to chat with him for his podcast I warned him he’d have trouble shutting me up. Maybe Ben felt that, but I felt we had a pretty interesting chat about lots of great (imho) …
“A clear and accessible introduction to statistics, perfect for beginners. This book covers both the old and the new – giving students the fundamentals they need to understand their field, while equipping them with a more sophisticated understanding of the …
“If I were teaching introductory statistics to undergraduates, this is the textbook I’d use. The things that make it distinctive are first, the focus on estimation rather than p-values (though the latter are covered), second, the link with free open-source …
Computational reproducibility is a mouthful but the idea is simple: Use the reported data analysis to get the reported results. Haven’t we always assumed that works? Yes, but. Search for “computational reproducibility” and find recent discussions in numerous disciplines. Conclusion: …
Yesterday I greatly enjoyed a zoom talk with the Open Science Community of Turku, Finland. Online were good folks from Finland, The Netherlands and I don’t know where else. Great questions at the end! My slides and 3 data files …
Stop Press: Metascience “Is metascience, and promotion of Open Science practices, the most urgent and consequential field for all of science at present? Maybe yes.” I wrote that about the latest AIMOS meeting (here). Now a leading metascientist is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of …
For the second edition we are expecting copy editing in late October, then from late November we have just three weeks to correct the page proofs and make two indexes. Phew. Routledge estimates the book will be released (ebook, softback, …
Bob and I are delighted to report that we’ve submitted ITNS2 to the publisher. Routledge say to expect it ‘early in 2024’. We’re hoping they may have something in time for faculty making textbook decisions for the N. Hemisphere Spring …
Since 1798 The Creation by Haydn has inspired awe. It tells the bible’s version of the creation story. Could we have a comparable artistic work based on the stories science now tells about the origins of the universe, our natural …
A clear and highly readable account of the last decade or so, with lots of help to put Open Science into practice. Find details here. As a student, Charlotte Pennington became fascinated by stereotype threat, a long-established concept in social …
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