Organized by Jean Miller, Nicole Jinn
September 2011
- (9/3) Frequentists in Exile: The Purpose of this Blog
- (9/3) Overheard at the comedy hour at the Bayesian retreat
- (9/4) Drilling Rule #1
- (9/9) Kuru
- (9/13) In Exile, Clinging to Old Ideas?
- (9/15) SF conferences & E. Lehmann
- (9/16) Getting It Right But for the Wrong Reason
- (9/20) A Highly Anomalous Event
- (9/23) LUCKY 13 (Critcisms)
- (9/26) Whipping Boys and Witch Hunters
- (9/29) Part 1: Imaginary scientist at an imaginary company, Prionvac, and an imaginary reformer
October 2011
- (10/3) Part 2 Prionvac: The Will to Understand Power
- (10/4) Part 3 Prionvac: How the Reformers Should Have done Their Job
- (10/5) Formaldehyde Hearing: How to Tell the Truth With Statistically Insignificant Results
- (10/7) Blogging the (Strong) Likelihood Principle
- (10/10) RMM-1: Special Volume on Stat Sci Meets Phil Sci
- (10/10) Objectivity 1: Will the Real Junk Science Please Stand Up?
- (10/13) Objectivity #2: The “Dirty Hands” Argument for Ethics in Evidence
- (10/14) King Tut Includes ErrorStatistics in Top 50 Statblogs!
- (10/16) Objectivity #3: Clean(er) Hands With Metastatistcs
- (10/19) RMM-2: “A Conversation Between Sir David Cox & D.G. Mayo
- (10/20) Blogging the Likelihood Principle #2: Solitary Fishing: SLP Violations
- (10/22) The Will to Understand Power: Neyman’s Nursery (NN1)
- (10/28) RMM-3: Special Volume on Stat Scie Meets Phl Sci (Hendry)
- (10/30) Background Knowledge: Not to Quantify, but to Avoid Being Misled by, Subjective Beliefs
- (10/31) Oxford Gaol: Statistical Bogeymen
November 2011
- (11/1) RMM-4: Special Volume on Stat Scie Meets Phil Sci (Spanos)
- (11/3) Who is Really Doing the Work?*
- (11/5) Skeleton Key and Skeletal Points for (Esteemed) Ghost Guest
- (11/9) Neyman’s Nursery 2: Power and Severity [Continuation of Oct. 22 Post]
- (11/12) Neyman’s Nursery (NN) 3: SHPOWER vs POWER
- (11/15) Logic Takes a Bit of a Hit!: (NN 4) Continuing: Shpower (“observed” power) vs Power
- (11/18) Neyman’s Nursery (NN5): Final Post
- (11/21) RMM-5: Special Volume on Stat Scie Meets Phil Sci (Wasserman)
- (11/23) Elbar Grease: Return to the Comedy Hour at the Bayesian Retreat
- (11/28) The UN Charter: double-counting and data snooping
- (11/29) If you try sometime, you find you get what you need!
December 2011
- (12/2) Getting Credit (or blame) for Something You Don’t Deserve (and first honorable mention)
- (12/6) Putting the Brakes on the Breakthrough Part 1*
- (12/7) Part II: Breaking Through the Breakthrough*
- (12/11) Irony and Bad Faith: Deconstructing Bayesians
- (12/19) Deconstructing and Deep-Drilling* 2
- (12/22) The 3 stages of the acceptance of novel truths
- (12/25) Little Bit of Blog Log-ic
- (12/26) Contributed Deconstructions: Irony & Bad Faith 3
- (12/29) JIM BERGER ON JIM BERGER!
- (12/31) Midnight With Birnbaum
January 2012
- (1/3) Model Validation and the LLP-(Long Playing Vinyl Record)
- (1/8) Don’t Birnbaumize that Experiment my Friend*
- (1/10) Bad-Faith Assertions of Conflicts of Interest?*
- (1/13) U-PHIL: “So you want to do a philosophical analysis?”
- (1/14) “You May Believe You are a Bayesian But You Are Probably Wrong” (Extract from Senn RMM article)
- (1/15) Mayo Philosophizes on Stephen Senn: “How Can We Culivate Senn’s-Ability?”
- (1/17) “Philosophy of Statistics”: Nelder on Lindley
- (1/19) RMM-6 Special Volume on Stat Sci Meets Phil Sci (Sprenger)
- (1/22) U-Phil: Stephen Senn (1): C. Robert, A. Jaffe, and Mayo (brief remarks)
- (1/23) U-Phil: Stephen Senn (2): Andrew Gelman
- (1/24) U-Phil (3): Stephen Senn on Stephen Senn!
- (1/26) Updating & Downdating: One of the Pieces to Pick up
- (1/29) No-Pain Philosophy: Skepticism, Rationality, Popper, and All That: First of 3 Parts
February 2012
- (2/3) Senn Again (Gelman)
- (2/7) When Can Risk-Factor Epidemiology Provide Reliable Tests?
- (2/8) Guest Blogger: Interstitial Doubts About the Matrixx (Schachtman)
- (2/8) Distortions in the Court? (PhilStat/PhilStock) **Cobb on Zilizk & McCloskey
- (2/11) R.A. Fisher: Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference
- (2/11) JERZY NEYMAN: Note on an Article by Sir Ronald Fisher
- (2/12) E.S. Pearson: Statistical Concepts in Their Relation to Reality
- (2/12) Guest Blogger. STEPHEN SENN: Fisher’s alternative to the alternative
- (2/15) Guest Blogger. Aris Spanos: The Enduring Legacy of R.A. Fisher
- (2/17) Two New Properties of Mathematical Likelihood
- (2/20) Statistical Theater of the Absurd: “Stat on a Hot Tin Roof”? (Rejected Post Feb 20)
- (2/22) Intro to Misspecification Testing: Ordering From A Full Diagnostic Menu (part 1)
- (2/23) Misspecification Testing: (part 2) A Fallacy of Error “Fixing”
- (2/27) Misspecification Testing: (part 3) Subtracting-out effects “on paper”
- (2/28) Misspecification Tests: (part 4) and brief concluding remarks
March 2012
- (3/2) MetaBlog: March 2, 2012
- (3/3) Statistical Science Court?
- (3/6) Mayo, Senn, and Wasserman on Gelman’s RMM** Contribution
- (3/8) Lifting a piece from Spanos’ contribution* will usefully add to the mix
- (3/10) U-PHIL: A Further Comment on Gelman by Christian Henning (UCL, Statistics)
- (3/11) Blogologue*
- (3/11) RMM-7: Commentary and Response on Senn published: Special Volume on Stat Scie Meets Phil Sci
- (3/14) Objectivity (#4) and the “Argument From Discretion”
- (3/18) Objectivity (#5): Three Reactions to the Challenge of Objectivity (in inference)
- (3/22) Generic Drugs Resistant to Lawsuits
- (3/25) The New York Times Goes to War Against Generic Drug Manufacturers: Schactman
- (3/26) Announcement: Philosophy of Scientific Experiment Conference
- (3/28) Comment on the Barnard and Copas (2002) Empirical Example: Aris Spanos
April 2012
- (4/1) Philosophy of Statistics: Retraction Watch, Vol. 1, No. 1
- (4/3) History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care
- (4/4) Fallacy of Rejection and the Fallacy of Nouvelle Cuisine
- (4/6) Going Where the Data Take Us
- (4/9) N. Schachtman: Judge Posner’s Digression on Regression
- (4/10) Call for papers: Philosepi?
- (4/12) That Promissory Note From Lehmann’s Letter; Schmidt to Speak
- (4/15) U-Phil: Deconstructing Dynamic Dutch-Books?
- (4/16) A. Spanos: Jerzy Neyman and his Enduring Legacy
- (4/17) Earlier U-Phils and Deconstructions
- (4/18) Jean Miller: Happy Sweet 16 to EGEK! (Shalizi Review: “We have Ways of Making You Talk”)
- (4/21) Jean Miller: Happy Sweet 16 to EGEK #2 (Hasok Chang Review of EGEK)
- (4/23) U-Phil: Jon Williamson: Deconstructing Dynamic Dutch Books
- (4/25) Matching Numbers Across Philosophies
- (4/28) Comedy Hour at the Bayesian Retreat: P-values versus Posteriors
May 2012
- (5/1) Stephen Senn: A Paradox of Prior Probabilities
- (5/5) Comedy Hour at the Bayesian (Epistemology) Retreat: Highly Probable vs Highly Probed
- (5/8) LSE Summer Seminar: Contemporary Problems in Philosophy of Statistics
- (5/10) Excerpts from S. Senn’s Letter on “Replication, p-values and Evidence,”
- (5/12) Saturday Night Brainstorming & Task Forces: The TFSI on NHST
- (5/17) Do CIs Avoid Fallacies of Tests? Reforming the Reformers
- (5/20) Betting, Bookies and Bayes: Does it Not Matter?
- (5/23) Does the Bayesian Diet Call For Error-Statistical Supplements?
- (5/24) An Error-Statistical Philosophy of Evidence (PH500, LSE Seminar)
- (5/28) Painting-by-Number #1
- (5/31) Metablog: May 31, 2012
June 2012
- (6/2) Anything Tests Can do, CIs do Better; CIs Do Anything Better than Tests?* (reforming the reformers cont.)
- (6/6) Review of Error and Inference by C. Hennig
- (6/9) U-Phil: Is the Use of Power* Open to a Power Paradox?
- (6/12) CMU Workshop on Foundations for Ockham’s Razor
- (6/14) Answer to the Homework & a New Exercise
- (6/15) Scratch Work for a SEV Homework Problem
- (6/17) Repost (5/17/12): Do CIs Avoid Fallacies of Tests? Reforming the Reformers
- (6/17) G. Cumming Response: The New Statistics
- (6/19) The Error Statistical Philosophy and The Practice of Bayesian Statistics: Comments on Gelman and Shalizi
- (6/23) Promissory Note
- (6/26) Deviates, Sloths, and Exiles: Philosophical Remarks on the Ockham’s Razor Workshop*
- (6/29) Further Reflections on Simplicity: Mechanisms
July 2012
- (7/1) PhilStatLaw: “Let’s Require Health Claims to Be ‘Evidence Based’” (Schachtman)
- (7/2) More from the Foundations of Simplicity Workshop*
- (7/3) Elliott Sober Responds on Foundations of Simplicity
- (7/4) Comment on Falsification
- (7/6) Vladimir Cherkassky Responds on Foundations of Simplicity
- (7/8) Metablog: Up and Coming
- (7/9) Stephen Senn: Randomization, ratios and rationality: rescuing the randomized clinical trial from its critics
- (7/10) PhilStatLaw: Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (3d ed) on Statistical Significance (Schachtman)
- (7/11) Is Particle Physics Bad Science?
- (7/12) Dennis Lindley’s “Philosophy of Statistics”
- (7/15) Deconstructing Larry Wasserman – it starts like this…
- (7/16) Peter Grünwald: Follow-up on Cherkassky’s Comments
- (7/19) New Kvetch Posted 7/18/12
- (7/21) “Always the last place you look!”
- (7/22) Clark Glymour: The Theory of Search Is the Economics of Discovery (part 1)
- (7/23) Clark Glymour: The Theory of Search Is the Economics of Discovery (part 2)
- (7/27) P-values as Frequentist Measures
- (7/28) U-PHIL: Deconstructing Larry Wasserman
- (7/31) What’s in a Name? (Gelman’s blog)
August 2012
- (8/2) Stephen Senn: Fooling the Patient: an Unethical Use of Placebo? (Phil/Stat/Med)
- (8/5) A “Bayesian Bear” rejoinder practically writes itself…
- (8/6) Bad news bears: Bayesian rejoinder
- (8/8) U-PHIL: Aris Spanos on Larry Wasserman
- (8/10) U-PHIL: Hennig and Gelman on Wasserman (2011)
- (8/11) E.S. Pearson Birthday
- (8/11) U-PHIL: Wasserman Replies to Spanos and Hennig
- (8/13) U-Phil: (concluding the deconstruction) Wasserman/Mayo
- (8/14) Good Scientist Badge of Approval?
- (8/16) E.S. Pearson’s Statistical Philosophy
- (8/18) A. Spanos: Egon Pearson’s Neglected Contributions to Statistics
- (8/20) Higgs Boson: Bayesian “Digest and Discussion”
- (8/22) Scalar or Technicolor? S. Weinberg, “Why the Higgs?”
- (8/25) “Did Higgs Physicists Miss an Opportunity by Not Consulting More With Statisticians?
- (8/27) Knowledge/evidence not captured by mathematical prob.
- (8/30) Frequentist Pursuit
- (8/31) Failing to Apply vs Violating the Likelihood Principle
September 2012
- (9/3) After dinner Bayesian comedy hour. …
- (9/6) Stephen Senn: The nuisance parameter nuisance
- (9/8) Metablog: One-Year Anniversary
- (9/8) Return to the comedy hour … (on significance tests)
- (9/12) U-Phil (9/25/12) How should “prior information” enter in statistical inference?
- (9/15) More on using background info
- (9/19) Barnard, background info/intentions
- (9/22) Statistics and ESP research (Diaconis)
- (9/25) Insevere tests and pseudoscience
- (9/26) Levels of Inquiry
- (9/29) Stephen Senn: On the (ir)relevance of stopping rules in meta-analysis
- (9/30) Letter from George (Barnard)
October 2012
- (10/02)PhilStatLaw: Infections in the court
- (10/05) Metablog: Rejected posts (blog within a blog)
- (10/05) Deconstructing Gelman, Part 1: “A Bayesian wants everybody else to be a non-Bayesian.”
- (10/07) Deconstructing Gelman, Part 2: Using prior information
- (10/09) Last part (3) of the deconstruction: beauty and background knowledge
- (10/12) U-Phils: Hennig and Aktunc on Gelman 2012
- (10/13) Mayo Responds to U-Phils on Background Information
- (10/15) New Kvetch: race-based academics in Fla
- (10/17) RMM-8: New Mayo paper: “StatSci and PhilSci: part 2 (Shallow vs Deep Explorations)”
- (10/18) Query
- (10/18) Mayo: (first 2 sections) “StatSci and PhilSci: part 2”
- (10/20) Mayo: (section 5) “StatSci and PhilSci: part 2”
- (10/21) Mayo: (section 6) “StatSci and PhilSci: part 2”
- (10/22) Mayo: (section 7) “StatSci and PhilSci: part 2”
- (10/24) Announcement: Ontology and Methodology (Virginia Tech)
- (10/25) New rejected post: phil faux
- (10/27) New rejected post: “Are you butter off now?”
- (10/29) Reblogging: Oxford Gaol: Statistical Bogeymen
- (10/29) Type 1 and 2 errors: Frankenstorm
- (10/30) Guest Post: Greg Gandenberger, “Evidential Meaning and Methods of Inference”
- (10/31) U-Phil: Blogging the Likelihood Principle: New Summary
November 2012
- (11/04) PhilStat: So you’re looking for a Ph.D. dissertation topic?
- (11/07) Seminars at the London School of Economics: Contemporary Problems in Philosophy of Statistics
- (11/10) Bad news bears: ‘Bayesian bear’ rejoinder – reblog
- (11/12) new rejected post: kvetch (and query)
- (11/14) continuing the comments. …
- (11/16) Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) 2012 Program
- (11/18) What is Bayesian/Frequentist Inference? (from the normal deviate)
- (11/18) New kvetch/PhilStock: Rapiscan Scam
- (11/19) Comments on Wasserman’s “what is Bayesian/frequentist inference?”
- (11/21) Irony and Bad Faith: Deconstructing Bayesians – reblog
- (11/23) Announcement: 28 November: My Seminar at the LSE (Contemporary PhilStat)
- (11/25) Likelihood Links [for 28 Nov. Seminar and Current U-Phil]
- (11/28) Blogging Birnbaum: on Statistical Methods in Scientific Inference
- (11/30) Error Statistics (brief overview)
December 2012
- (12/2) Normal Deviate’s blog on false discovery rates
- (12/2) Statistical Science meets Philosophy of Science
- (12/3) Mayo Commentary on Gelman & Robert’s paper
- (12/6) Announcement: U-Phil Extension: Blogging the Likelihood Principle
- (12/7) Nov. Palindrome Winner: Kepler
- (12/8) Don’t Birnbaumize that experiment my friend*–updated reblog
- (12/11) Announcement: Prof. Stephen Senn to lead LSE grad seminar: 12-12-12
- (12/11) Mayo on S. Senn: “How Can We Cultivate Senn’s-Ability?”
- (12/13) “Bad statistics”: crime of free speech?
- (12/14) PhilStat/Law (“Bad Statistics” Cont.)
- (12/17) PhilStat/Law/Stock: multiplicity and duplicity
- (12/19) PhilStat/Law/Stock: more on “bad statistics”: Schachtman
- (12/21) Rejected Post: Clinical Trial Statistics Doomed by Mayan Apocalypse?
- (12/22) Msc kvetch: unfair but lawful discrimination (vs the irresistibly attractive)
- (12/24) 13 well-worn criticisms of significance tests (and how to avoid them)
- (12/27) 3 msc kvetches on the blog bagel circuit
- (12/30) An established probability theory for hair comparison?“–is not — and never was”
- (12/31) Midnight with Birnbaum-reblog
Error Statistics Philosophy 