Monthly Archives: September 2024

The leisurely cruise begins: Excerpt from Excursion 1 Tour 1 of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing (SIST)

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Excerpt from excursion 1 Tour I: Beyond Probabilism and Performance: Severity Requirement (1.1)

NOTE: The following is an excerpt from my existing book: Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to get beyond the statistics wars (CUP, 2018). For any new reflections or corrections, I will use the comments. The initial announcement is here.

I’m talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is [beyond] not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you’re maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. (Feynman 1974/1985, p. 387)

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Leisurely cruise through Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: First Announcement

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We’re embarking on a leisurely cruise through the highlights of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing [SIST]: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (CUP 2018) this fall (Oct-Jan), following the 5 seminars I led for a 2020 London School of Economics (LSE) Graduate Research Seminar. It was run entirely online due to Covid (as were the workshops that followed). In this new, relaxed (self-paced) journey, excursions that had been covered in a week, will be spread out over a month [i] and I’ll be posting abbreviated excerpts on this blog a few times a month. Look for the posts marked with the picture of ship StatInfAsSt. [ii] Continue reading

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An exchange between A. Gelman and D. Mayo on abandoning statistical significance: 5 years ago

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Below is an email exchange that Andrew Gelman posted on this day 5 years ago on his blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.  (You can find the original exchange, with its 130 comments, here.) Note: “Me” refers to Gelman. I will share my current reflections in the comments.

Exchange with Deborah Mayo on abandoning statistical significance

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