Monthly Archives: July 2020

JSM 2020 Panel on P-values & “Statistical Significance”

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Mayo

All: On July 30 (10am EST) I will give a virtual version of my JSM presentation, remotely like the one I will actually give on Aug 6 at the JSM. Co-panelist Stan Young may as well. One of our surprise guests tomorrow (not at the JSM) will be Yoav Benjamini!  If you’re interested in attending our July 30 practice session* please follow the directions here. Background items for this session are in the “readings” and “memos” of session 5.

*unless you’re already on our LSE Phil500 list

JSM 2020 Panel Flyer (PDF)
JSM online program w/panel abstract & information): Continue reading →

Categories: Announcement, JSM 2020, significance tests, stat wars and their casualties

Stephen Senn: Losing Control (guest post)

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Mayo

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Stephen Senn
Consultant Statistician
Edinburgh

Losing Control

Match points

The idea of local control is fundamental to the design and analysis of experiments and contributes greatly to a design’s efficiency. In clinical trials such control is often accompanied by randomisation and the way that the randomisation is carried out has a close relationship to how the analysis should proceed. For example, if a parallel group trial is carried out in different centres, but randomisation is ‘blocked’ by centre then, logically, centre should be in the model (Senn, S. J. & Lewis, R. J., 2019). On the other hand if all the patients in a given centre are allocated the same treatment at random, as in a so-called cluster randomised trial, then the fundamental unit of inference becomes the centre and patients are regarded as repeated measures on it. In other words, the way in which the allocation has been carried out effects the degree of matching that has been achieved and this, in turn, is related to the analysis that should be employed. A previous blog of mine, To Infinity and Beyond,  discusses the point. Continue reading →

Categories: covid-19, randomization, RCTs, S. Senn

JSM 2020: P-values & “Statistical Significance”, August 6

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Mayo


Link: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2020/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=219596

To register for JSM: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2020/registration.cfm

Categories: JSM 2020, P-values

Colleges & Covid-19: Time to Start Pool Testing

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Mayo

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I. “Colleges Face Rising Revolt by Professors,” proclaims an article in today’s New York Times, in relation to returning to in-person teaching:

Thousands of instructors at American colleges and universities have told administrators in recent days that they are unwilling to resume in-person classes because of the pandemic. More than three-quarters of colleges and universities have decided students can return to campus this fall. But they face a growing faculty revolt.
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