2025 Cruise
We continue our leisurely tour of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing [SIST] (Mayo 2018, CUP) with Excursion 3. This is based on my 5 seminars at the London School of Economics in 2020; I include slides and video for those who are interested. (use the comments for questions)
November’s Leisurely Tour: N-P and Fisherian Tests, Severe Testing
Reading:
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SIST: Excursion 3 Tour I (focus on pages up to p. 152): 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
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Optional: Excursion 2 Tour II pp. 92-100 (Sections 2.4-2.7)
Quick refresher on means, variance, standard deviations, the Normal distribution, standard normal
Slides & Video Links for November (from my LSE Seminar)
Slides:
Meeting #2 main slides (PDF)
Supplemental slides (Likelihoodist vs. Significance Tester w/ Bernoulli Trials) (PDF)
Video
Interested in joining us? Please email Jean Miller (jemille6@vt.edu), with your info, and she will send you a clean copy of the monthly materials. We’re planning a zoom meeting for either Nov 16 or 21.
-References: Captain’s Bibliography
–Souvenirs: October Meeting : A-D; November Meeting: (E) An Array of Questions, Problems, Models, (I) So What Is a Statistical Test, Really?, (J) UMP Tests, (K) Probativism
[Souvenirs from optional pages–they’re free: (F) Getting Free of Popperian Constraints on Language, (G) The Current State of Play in Psychology, (H) Solving Induction Is Showing Methods with Error Control]
Error Statistics Philosophy 
Thanks, Mayo! The slides and videos make SIST much easier to follow.