Here’s a depressing new paper that surveys reporting practices in The Journal of Neurophysiology after it instituted new reporting guidelines for authors (Héroux et al., 2023). Why depressing? Because the updated guidelines seem to have done little to improve reporting, …
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) …
Yes, we’re excited about the upcoming 2nd edition of Introduction to the New Statistics. Though we’re not braggarts by nature, hard not to crow from this feedback from Beth Morling, author of the fantastic textbook Research Methods in Psychology, APS …
We’re so excited about the impending release of the 2nd edition of Introduction to the New Statistics. And we’re extremely grateful that some friends of good science have taken the time to look at the new edition and provide some …
Brian Nosek weighs in on the 2nd edition of ITNS Read more »
“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 …
Here’s more evidence that estimation is catching on in neuroscience, a beautiful paper in from Silveira et al. (2023) in The Journal of Neuroscience. The paper characterizes local functional circuitry in the inferior colliculus (IC), a key processing station for …
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If you want to wrap up your winter semester with an invigorating online conference on teaching research excellence, you’re in luck, as the APA’s Teaching Research Excellence conference will be held via Zoom on December 14th, 2023 from 9:00 am …
“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 …