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…
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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…
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…
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…
Judging Replicability: Fiona’s repliCATS Project
Judging Replicability Whenever we read a research article we almost certainly form a judgment of its believability. To what extent is it plausible? To what extent could it be replicated? What are the chances that the findings are true? What…
Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”
The 43 articles in The American Statistician discussing what researchers should do in a “post p<.05” world are now online. See here for a list of them all, with links to each article. The collection starts with an editorial: Go…
Joining the fractious debate over how to do science best
At the end of the month (March 2019) the American Statistical Association will publish a special issue on statistical inference “after p values”. The goal of the issue is to focus on the statistical “dos” rather than statistical “don’ts”. Across…
Sizing up behavioral neuroscience – a meta-analysis of the fear-conditioning literature
Inadequate sample sizes are kryptonite to good science–they produce waste, spurious results, and inflated effect sizes. Doing science with an inadequate sample is worse than doing nothing. In the neurosciences, large-scale surveys of the literature show that inadequate sample sizes…
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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