Recently (Nelder,1999) I have argued that statistics should be called statistical science, and that probability theory should be called statistical mathematics (not mathematical statistics). I think that Professor Lindley’s paper should be called the philosophy of statistical mathematics, and within it there is little that I disagree with. However, my interest is in the philosophy of statistical science, which I regard as different. Statistical science is not just about the study of uncertainty but rather deals with inferences about scientific theories from uncertain data. Continue reading
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"Philosophy of Statistics": Nelder on Lindley
A friend from Elba surprised me by sending the interesting paper and discussion of Dennis Lindley (2000), “The Philosophy of Statistics,” which I hadn’t seen in years. She suggested, as especially apt, J. Nelder’s remarks; I recommend the full article and discussion:
(from) Comments by J. Nelder:

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Reviews of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing (SIST)
- P. Bandyopadhyay (2019) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- C. Hennig (2019) Statistical Modeling, Causal. Inference, and Social Science blog
- A. Spanos (2019) OEconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy
- R. Cousins 2020 (Preprint)
- S. Fletcher (2020) Philosophy of Science
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- The Statistics Debate!with Jim Berger, Deborah Mayo, David Trafimow & Dan Jeske, moderator (10/15/20)
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- Philosophy of Data Science Series Keynote Episode 1: Revolutions, Reforms, and Severe Testing in Data Science with Glen Wright Colopy (11/24/20)
- Philosophy of Data Science Series Keynote Episode 2: The Philosophy of Science & Statistics with Glen Wright Colopy (12/01/20)
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- S. Senn: Randomisation is not about balance, nor about homogeneity but about randomness (Guest Post)
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- Philosophy of Statistics & the Replication Crisis in Science: A philosophical intro to my book (slides)
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- Stephen Senn: "Delta Force: To what extent is clinical relevance relevant?" (Guest Post)
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