I had great fun yesterday visiting NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), a large research institute in Sydney. I was hosted by Simon Gandevia, Deputy Director, who has been a long-time proponent of Open Science and The New Statistics. Neura’s Research Quality…
Introduction to the New Statistics
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Author: Geoff Cumming
I Join an RCT: A View From the Other Side
In ITNS we discuss randomized control trials (RCTs) and I’ve taught about them since whenever. If done well, they should provide gold standard evidence about the benefits and harms of a therapy. So I was particularly interested to be invited…
Replications: How Should We Analyze the Results?
Does This Effect Replicate? It seems almost irresistible to think in terms of such a dichotomous question! We seem to crave an ‘it-did’ or ‘it-didn’t’ answer! However, rarely if ever is a bald yes-no decision the most informative way to…
‘Preregistration’ or ‘Registration’?
For years, medicine has urged the ‘registration‘ of clinical trials before data collection starts. More recently, psychology has come to use the term ‘preregistration‘ for this vital component of Open Science. The ‘pre’ puts it in your face that it…
Congratulations Professor Fiona Fidler!
Just as the fabulous AIMOS Conference — one of Fiona’s most recent triumphs — was wrapping, it was announced officially that Fiona Fidler has been appointed as full PROFESSOR at the University of Melbourne. Wonderful news! Wow, when Simine Vazire…
AIMOS — The New Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science Association
Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research & Open Science (AIMOS) I had a fascinating two days down at the University of Melbourne last week for the first AIMOS conference. The program is here and you can click through to see details of…
Good Science Requires Unceasing Explanation and Advocacy
Recently in Australia a proposal was made for an “independent science quality assurance agency”. Justification for the proposal made specific reference to “the replication crisis” in science. Surely we can all support a call for quality assurance in science? Not…
Meta-Science: It’s all Happening in Melbourne
Are you interested in meta-science? In Open Science? If so, check out the inaugural conference of AIMOS, the Association for Interdisciplinary Research &Open Science. It’s a two-day meeting, on 7 & 8 November, at the University of Melbourne. There’s an…
‘Open Statistics’: It’s All Happening in Italy
I knew good things were happening at the University of Bologna this (northern) summer. Now I know the details. The brochure is here, and this is part of the title page: What do they mean by ‘Open Statistics’? As I…
The New Statistics Videos: 5 Years On
This week’s news email from the APS includes this interesting item: Aha, I thought, they are giving publicity to Tamara and Bob’s wonderful workshop at the APS Convention last month. Great! But the link didn’t go to the materials for…
New Stats blog: NeuRA Ahead of the Open Science Curve https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/12/07/neura-ahead-of-the-open-science-curve/
flashbulb memory: @dstephenlindsay was visiting, and we went to Geoff Cummings’s talk. As it all sunk in, we slid down our chairs in horror. The next day, I starting fixing things in my lab—but Steve started fixing all of psychological science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797619893653
Bootstrap methods are not a license to use small sample sizes:
“When sample sizes are too small, no amount of bootstrapping can lead to reliable inferences because the skewness and the tails of certain distributions cannot be captured properly.”
https://psyarxiv.com/kxarf/
New Stats blog: I Join an RCT: A View From the Other Side https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/11/27/i-join-an-rct-a-view-from-the-other-side/
Back in April the British Neuroscience Association adopted reforms to enhance research credibility (@robustgar):
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2398212819844167
So impressed with this statement.
So envious of the BNA--way ahead of @SfNJournals on these issues (though good steps at eNeuro).
Today I'm thankful for any graduate program whose LoR portal requires only a letter upload and none of those rating scales.
Its only p-hacking if it comes from the pihâque region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling malpractice
New Stats blog: Replications: How Should We Analyze the Results? https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/11/22/replications-how-should-we-analyze-the-results/
We examined close to 1 million confidence intervals in PubMed abstracts and found a huge and unbelievable number of intervals that were just below the magic 0.05 statistically significant threshold https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/11/e032506.full, with @Jonathan_D_Wren
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