Bob and I have been off-air for a while, but we haven’t gone away. I’ve been meaning for ages to blog about a wonderful book. Here it is: Sowey, E., & Petocz, P. (2017). A panorama of statistics: Perspectives, puzzles…
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APS in San Fran 3: Workshop on Teaching the New Stats
Tamarah Smith and Bob presented a workshop on Teaching the New Stats to an almost sold-out crowd. I wasn’t there, but by all reports it went extremely well. Such a workshop seems to me a terrific way to help interested…
APS in San Fran 2: Symposium on Teaching the New Stats
Our symposium was titled Open Science and Its Statistics: What We Need to Teach Now. The room wasn’t large, but it was packed, standing room only. I thought the energy was terrific. There were four presentations, as below. Bob and…
Tony Hak 1950-2018: Champion of Better Methods, Better Statistics
It was a shock to receive the very sad news that Tony Hak died last week, unexpectedly. Too young! And only 3 years into an active retirement. Tony was an Emeritus Associate Professor, having retired in 2015 from the Department…
ITNS–A New Review on Amazon
The ITNS page on Amazon (U.S.) is here. Scroll down to see the 4 reviews by readers. Recently a five-star review was added by Edoardo Zamuner. Here it is: “I am an experimental psychologist with training in NHST. Cumming’s book…
The Beautiful Face of a Confidence Interval: The Cat’s Eye Picture
Pawel (Pav) Kalinowski and Jerry Lai completed their PhDs a few years back. A recently published Frontiers article (citation below) reports what was primarily Pav’s research on how people understand confidence intervals (CIs). The short version is “for many people,…
Measuring Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis: The Diamond Ratio (DR)
This is a post about the Diamond Ratio (DR), a simple measure of the extent of heterogeneity in a meta-analysis. We introduced the DR in ITNS. But first, some background. Fixed Effect (FE) model for meta-analysis The diamond at the…
Open Science: This Time in Orthodontics
Last month it was the Antarctic Scientists, this month the Orthodontists, and once again I had a most enjoyable time. Lindsay my wife and I are just back from 5 days in Sydney. I was speaking at the 26th Australian…
Why effect sizes? A tutorial (especially for Neuroscientists)
The New Statistics emphasizes effect sizes, confidence intervals, meta-analysis, and Open Science. There’s a lot of momentum to adopt this change of focus. For example, the APA recently released new guidelines for reporting quantitative research and throughout it emphasizes reporting…
Open Science Leaders: Dan and Steve Tell Their Stories
BTW, have you noticed that Bob has set up NewStatistics on Twitter–scroll down and see the right hand side bar. Do follow us and help spread the word. Thanks! Dan Simons may be best known as the co-author of the…
New Stats blog: The Cookie-Monster Study: The highly influential memory of a long-lost study https://t.co/UEVjKKWLC2
New Stats blog: Reply to Lakens: The correctly-used p value needs an effect size and CI https://t.co/mPiLkIXmft
Most assume that big careful RCTs of cognitive/learning interventions bound to show only small effx. Whoa, but check out new report from Rohrer group… d=.83, n=787 in 54 classes…
https://t.co/WFoUiH7Zo1
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