It’s World Statistics Day, with the tagline “Connecting the world with data we can trust“. Yes, Tuesday 20 October is the day. (Also the birthday of Lindy, my wife. Maybe there’s a message there somewhere.) Science is under attack around …
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Sometimes, of course, we can be delighted to find evidence that an effect is zero-to-negligible. …as if good Open Science researchers would ever let their emotions intrude on their work.Geoff
On 6/4/2020 the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) hosted an an “Ask and Expert” online webinar on power and estimation. Short presentations on the topic were first posted here as a catalyst to generate questions and comments to discuss during a …
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Below is the post we wrote for the jamovi blog about the new esci module. For this site, the main page with details on the modules is here: https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/esci/jesci/ ——– Post for the jamovi blog————— Today there’s a new module …
In brief: Curves picture how likelihood varies across and beyond a CI. Which is better: One curve (plausibility picture) or two (cat’s eye)? Which should we use in ITNS2? Curves can discourage dichotomous decision making based on a belief that …
The above announcement is from the February ASA (American Statistical Association) newsletter. (See p. 7 for the announcement and the list of 15 members of the Task Force.) Why won’t statistical significance simply whither and die, taking p<.05 and maybe …
If you have tramped or climbed in New Zealand’s high country, as I did for a couple of months many moons ago, you’ve probably spent hours watching kea exploring or ‘playing’. Kea are large parrots with wicked-looking beaks that are …
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Wayne Velicer was a giant among quantitative psychologists and health researchers, among other groups. I was very fortunate to be able to call him a colleague and good friend. Sadly, he died too young, in October 2017. The journal Multivariate …
Our Family Summer in a Time of Fires We’re just back home after a couple of weeks at the big old family beach house. We had one stinking hot day, 40+ degrees, but, strangely, other days were cool to cold, …
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In ITNS we discuss randomized control trials (RCTs) and I’ve taught about them since whenever. If done well, they should provide gold standard evidence about the benefits and harms of a therapy. So I was particularly interested to be invited …