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I’m delighted to say we’re releasing three new goodies from Gordon Moore: distributions, d picture, and correlation. These follow his wonderful dances introduced here. As I explained, ITNS2 will be accompanied by Bob’s data analysis software, esci, in R, and Gordon’s web-based …
Goodies from Gordon: ‘distributions’, ‘d picture’, ‘correlation’–all part of ‘esci web’ Read more »
…as I was asked recently. A question every author loves to hear. The short answer is ITNS, preferably to be followed by ITNS2, coming in 2021 we hope. Here’s an overview: ITNS, second edition, due 2021 Main changes from the …
A while back I posted (here) about the Diamond Ratio (DR), which is our simple visual indicator of the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analysis. (See ITNS, Chapter 9 for more on the DR.) I reported that Max Cairns, a PhD …
Bob and I are delighted to welcome Gordon Moore who joins us in working on the second edition of ITNS. Gordon, an independent tutor in computing, statistics and mathematics, is based in England, so our ITNS2 team of three now …
Gordon’s ‘dances’: Vivid Simulations Bring Statistical Ideas Alive Read more »
An appreciative comment on YouTube reminds me I haven’t mentioned Significance Roulette for a while, yet its message that a p value can’t be trusted remains as relevant as ever. Dance of the p Values The dance of the p …
Reminder: Significance Roulette Still Tells Us a p Value Can’t be Trusted Read more »
I haven’t read this book–it won’t reach here for a while–but Fiona has written a critique that’s certainly worth reading. Out this week in Nature, you can find her assessment here. From Fiona’s review: “Together with his overview of the …
Sometimes, of course, we can be delighted to find evidence that an effect is zero-to-negligible. …as if good Open Science researchers would ever let their emotions intrude on their work.Geoff
Bob has tweeted, but it’s worth a quick post. His 90 min new-statistics zoomfest was part of SIPS2020. More than 100 folks, almost all staying to the end. Excited and positive chat all the way through. Yes, a 5am start …
Just had an update about Fiona’s big project to study how well researchers can judge the chance that some result can be replicated. She and the team are doing well, but need a last push during July to meet their …
Will that result replicate? Contribute some judgments to Fiona’s repliCATS project Read more »
Update: The great figures below were produced using the wonderful Estimation Statistics package. See also Ho, et al. (2019). Back in August Bob posted (here) about eNeuro‘s great initiative to encourage authors to use estimation. The latest eNeuro email update …