In brief The Journal of Physiology is embracing a number of Open Science practices and has just published an editorial highly critical of the p value. Yay! In less brief Simon Gandevia, of the NeuRA research institute in Sydney, has …
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Bob tweeted about a new eNeuro editorial. It’s a one-year progress report on encouragement for eNeuro authors to use estimation: fully 52 of 100 articles included estimation information! The editorial is short, and a great read. Christophe Bernard, the editor-in-chief, …
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I’ve just read a great series of papers by Denis Cousineau and Jean-Christophe Goulet-Pelletier. They propose a new way to calculate a CI on Cohen’s d in the paired design (e.g., a pre-post study). It’s an approximation, but they show …
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We’re delighted to release precision for planning (PfP), the sixth component of esci web. This completes esci web as currently planned. To access, click esci web and then the precision for planning button. Please let’s know how you like it, …
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…as I was asked recently. A question every author loves to hear. The short answer is ITNS, preferably to be followed by ITNS2, coming in 2021 we hope. Here’s an overview: ITNS, second edition, due 2021 Main changes from the …
[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 …
Bob has tweeted, but it’s worth a quick post. His 90 min new-statistics zoomfest was part of SIPS2020. More than 100 folks, almost all staying to the end. Excited and positive chat all the way through. Yes, a 5am start …
Update: The great figures below were produced using the wonderful Estimation Statistics package. See also Ho, et al. (2019). Back in August Bob posted (here) about eNeuro‘s great initiative to encourage authors to use estimation. The latest eNeuro email update …
A recent viewpoint article (free download) in JAMA argues that decisions should not be based on mere p value criteria, but need “consideration of the outcome in terms of effect size and accompanying CIs, [and] placing the findings from the …
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 …