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I gave a talk last week as part of the VT Department of Philosophy’s “brown bag” series. Here’s the blurb:
What is the Philosophy of Statistics? (and how I was drawn to it)
I give an introductory discussion of two key philosophical controversies in statistics in relation to today’s “replication crisis” in science: the role of probability, and the nature of evidence, in error-prone inference. I begin with a simple principle: We don’t have evidence for a claim C if little, if anything, has been done that would have found C false (or specifically flawed), even if it is. Along the way, I sprinkle in some autobiographical reflections.
My slides are at the end of this post: Continue reading
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