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 …
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 …
Joining the fractious debate over how to do science best Read more »
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 …
Sizing up behavioral neuroscience – a meta-analysis of the fear-conditioning literature Read more »
I recently wrote in favour of internal meta-analysis, which refers to m-a that integrates evidence from two or more studies on more-or-less the same question, all coming from the same lab and perhaps reported in a single article. The post …
That’s the title of a paper accepted for publication in The American Statistician. (I confess that I added the “!”) The paper is here. Scroll down below to see the abstract. The paper boasts an interdisciplinary team of authors, including …
A week or two ago Simine Vazire was in town. Fiona Fidler organised a great Open Science jamboree to celebrate. The program is here and a few of the sets of slides are here. Simine on the credibility revolution First …
“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard.” –a well-known quote from John Tukey. Cabbage? That’s CABG–see below. A week or so ago Lindy and I spent a very enjoyable 5 days …
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A recent powerful blog post (see below) against internal meta-analysis prompts me to ask the question above. (Actually, Steve Lindsay prompted me to write this post; thanks Steve.) In ITNS we say, on p. 243: “To carry out a meta-analysis …
I’m in Sydney, the great Manly surf beach just over the road. It’s an easy ferry ride to the Opera House and city centre. Lindy and I started this trip up from Melbourne with a few days with a cousin, …
Eating Disorders Research: Open Science and The New Statistics Read more »
Years ago, Matthew Page was a student in the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University (in Melbourne), working with Fiona Fidler and me. He somehow (!) became interested in research methods and practices, especially as related to meta-analysis. …