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BLOG Contents: March and April 2014
Compiled by Jean Miller and Nicole Jinn
March 2014
(3/1) Cosma Shalizi gets tenure (at last!) (metastat announcement)
(3/2) Significance tests and frequentist principles of evidence: Phil6334 Day #6
(3/3) Capitalizing on Chance (ii)
(3/4) Power, power everywhere–(it) may not be what you think! [illustration]
(3/8) Msc kvetch: You are fully dressed (even under you clothes)?
(3/8) Fallacy of Rejection and the Fallacy of Nouvelle Cuisine
(3/11) Phil6334 Day #7: Selection effects, the Higgs and 5 sigma, Power
(3/12) Get empowered to detect power howlers
(3/15) New SEV calculator (guest app: Durvasula)
(3/17) Stephen Senn: “Delta Force: To what extent is clinical relevance relevant?” (Guest Post)
(3/19) Power taboos: Statue of Liberty, Senn, Neyman, Carnap, Severity
(3/22) Fallacies of statistics & statistics journalism, and how to avoid them: Summary & Slides Day #8 (Phil 6334)
(3/25) The Unexpected Way Philosophy Majors Are Changing The World Of Business
(3/26) Phil6334:Misspecification Testing: Ordering From A Full Diagnostic Menu (part 1)
(3/28) Severe osteometric probing of skeletal remains: John Byrd
(3/29) Winner of the March 2014 palindrome contest (rejected post)
(3/30) Phil6334: March 26, philosophy of misspecification testing (Day #9 slides)
April 2014
(4/1) Skeptical and enthusiastic Bayesian priors for beliefs about insane asylum renovations at Dept of Homeland Security: I’m skeptical and unenthusiastic
(4/3) Self-referential blogpost (conditionally accepted*)
(4/5) Who is allowed to cheat? I.J. Good and that after dinner comedy hour. . ..
(4/6) Phil6334: Duhem’s Problem, highly probable vs highly probed; Day #9 Slides
(4/8) “Out Damned Pseudoscience: Non-significant results are the new ‘Significant’ results!” (update)
(4/12) “Murder or Coincidence?” Statistical Error in Court: Richard Gill (TEDx video)
(4/14) Phil6334: Notes on Bayesian Inference: Day #11 Slides
(4/16) A. Spanos: Jerzy Neyman and his Enduring Legacy
(4/17) Duality: Confidence intervals and the severity of tests
(4/19) Getting Credit (or blame) for Something You Didn’t Do (BP oil spill)
(4/21) Phil 6334: Foundations of statistics and its consequences: Day#12
(4/23) Phil 6334 Visitor: S. Stanley Young, “Statistics and Scientific Integrity”
(4/26) Reliability and Reproducibility: Fraudulent p-values through multiple testing (and other biases): S. Stanley Young (Phil 6334: Day #13)
(4/30) Able Stats Elba: 3 Palindrome nominees for April! (rejected post)
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