I will be giving an online talk on Friday, Feb 2, 4:30-5:45 NYC time, at a conference you can watch on zoom this week (Jan 30-Feb 2): Is Philosophy Useful for Science, and/or Vice Versa? It’s taking place in-person and online at Chapman University. My talk is: “The importance of philosophy of science for Statistical Science and vice versa”. I’ll touch on a current paper I’m writing that (finally) gets back to “Bayesian conceptions of severity”, (in contrast to error statistical severity) as begun on the post on Van Dongen, Springer, and Wagenmaker (2022). Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Conference: Is Philosophy Useful for Science, and/or Vice Versa? (Jan 30- Feb 2, 2024)
Friends of David R. Cox (2022)

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I want to extend my warmest thanks to all who became Friends of David R. Cox in 2022. Your generous donations to the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award are honoring the contributions of David R. Cox, and promoting the importance of statistical foundations in the American Statistical Association (ASA):
Karim Abadir, Heather Battey, Yoav Benjamini, Stuart Bevan, Alex Blocker, John Bibby, Lynne Billard, Sheila M. Bird, William Browning, John Byrd, Nancy Cartwright, Michael P. Cohen, Noel Cressie, Robert Crouchley, Gary R. Cutter, Anthony C. Davison, Bianca De Stavola, Edgar, Dobriban, Christl Donnelly, Vern Farewell, Samuel Fletcher, David Firth, David Freeborn, Andrew Gelman, David J. Hand, Sylvia Halasz, Frank E. Harrell, Maria-Eglee Perez Hernandez, Klaus Hinkelmann, Michelle Jackson, Patricia A. Jacobs, Harold Jaffe, Bimal Jain, Christiana Kartsonaki, Robert and Loretta Kass, Jesse Krijthe, Daniel Lakens, Ji-Hyun Lee, Lei Liu, Francisco Louzada, Donald Macnaughton, Giovanni M. Marchetti, Kanti V. Mardia, Peter McCullagh, Xiao-Li Meng, Jean Miller, Georges A. A Monette, Pavlos Msaouel, David Oakes, David Oliver, Yusuke Ono, John Park, Jose G. Ramirez, Nancy Reid, James L. Rosenberger, Richard J. Samworth, Stephen J. Senn, Dylan S. Small, David M. Smith, Aris Spanos, Alex Sutherland, John Tomenson, Tengyao Wang, Ronald L. Wasserstein, Gideon Weiss, Manyu Wong, Henry L. Wyneken, Henry Wynn
We exceeded our increased goal (from $5,000-$7,500) last year, raising $8,765.53, all of which is being matched! * Continue reading


