In 2017, I (Bob) attended a National Academies of Science conference on reproducibility in science. Among many memorable events, I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would …
The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications Read more »
I (Bob) am spending some of this summer working on the esci package for R. I’ve got a rough draft cobbled together, but now I want to go back through to make a beautiful, maintainable codebase. Most importantly, I want …
Designing an R interface and dealing with S3 “classes”… any suggestions? Read more »
[Update 7/4/2020 – Added reference to preprint on Cohen’s d for paired designs and put code in an actual code block] Lots of research questions boil down to estimating the difference between two means (Mdiff = Mgroup_of_interest – Mreference_group). This …
On 6/4/2020 the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) hosted an an “Ask and Expert” online webinar on power and estimation. Short presentations on the topic were first posted here as a catalyst to generate questions and comments to discuss during a …
Resources from SFN’s “Ask an Expert” event on power and estimation Read more »
Below is the post we wrote for the jamovi blog about the new esci module. For this site, the main page with details on the modules is here: https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/esci/jesci/ ——– Post for the jamovi blog————— Today there’s a new module …
I (Bob) love large-scale collaborative projects (Many Labs, Many Babies, Psych Science Accelerator, etc.). I like the teamwork involved. I like the careful deliberation over study materials. I like the large sample sizes and the hopes of investigating how psychological …
I had the great pleasure today of discussing the estimation approach (New Statistics) at the Open Statistics / Open Eyes conference in Cesena, University of Bologna. Here I’m posting some resources for those looking to get started with the New …
Last week I (Bob) had my first Registered Report proposal accepted at eNeuro. It’s another collaboration with my wife, Irina, where we will test two popular models of forgetting. The proposal, pre-registration, analysis script, and preliminary data are all on …
Registered Reports: Conjuring Up a Dangerous Experiment Read more »
I’m in the midst of an unhappy experience serving as a peer reviewer. The situation is still evolving but I thought I’d put up a short post describing (in general terms) what’s happened because I’d be happy to have some …
Transparency of reporting sort of saves the day… Read more »
eNeuro, one of the two journals published by the Society for Neuroscience, has revised its author guidelines to encourage estimation. That’s great news. Here is: The announcement and comment from editor Christophe Bernard An accompanying commentary from us that explains …