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Three meta-principles of statistics: the information principle, the methodological attribution problem, and different applications demand different philosophies
about 24 hours ago
The information principle: the key to a good statistical method is not...
StatRetro: The twitter feed that spits out our old blog posts, one at a time, every 8 hours
1 day ago
Hi all. Just a reminder that we have a bot that posts...
This guy’s mad about fake research, and he should be. Research incompetence, research fraud, and the promotion of fraudulent or incompetent work . . . these are not victimless crimes.
2 days ago
Here Michael Sanders based his World Bank-funded study in Guatemala on a...
Survey Statistics: sampling the sample
3 days ago
So far we’ve focused on means E[Y] as our quantity of interest...
Under what sort of systematic reporting errors will science be self-correcting, or not? And do gardening programs reduce obesity?
3 days ago
This paper by Jon Agley, Sarah Deemer, and David Allison begins Science...
The Aristocrats! (Found poetry in the email archive)
4 days ago
“The smartest people in the world had gathered in Los Angeles” —...
A Borgesian blog idea (and nothing to do with forking paths)
4 days ago
Palko points to the above xkcd cartoon, which is absolutely wonderful. My...
Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold?
5 days ago
I was talking with someone the other day about some disputed claim...
The density of fraud
6 days ago
Last year we discussed the story of a doctor at Columbia University...
The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram
7 days ago
This is Erik. Five years ago, I wrote a short paper about...
How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors?
7 days ago
Here’s a story that appears on pages 309-310 of Active Statistics Many...
The Democrats were lucky that the election was last week and not next week.
8 days ago
The headline result from last week’s elections was: Democrats win across the...