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“Retire Statistical Significance”: A Call to Join the Discussion
[From the blog “‘Retire Statistical Significance’: The discussion” by Andrew Gelman, posted at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science] “So, the paper by Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, and Blake McShane that we discussed a few weeks ago has just appeared online as…
Read MoreTo p-Value or Not to p-Value? An Answer From Signal Detection Theory
[From the article “Insights into Criteria for Statistical Significance from Signal Detection Analysis” by Jessica Witt, published in Meta-Psychology] “… the best criteria for statistical significance are ones that maximize discriminability between real and null effects, not just those that…
Read MoreOpen Policy Analysis Applied to the Warren Wealth Tax Plan: A Very Cool Initiative!
[From the blog, “Opening up the analysis behind Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax plan” posted at BITSS] “Senator Elizabeth Warren declared her 2020 presidential bid on a platform based on policies to rebuild the American middle-class. A key part of her…
Read MoreWant to Retire Significance Testing? Sign the Petition. Deadline is Tomorrow!
[From the blog ““Abandon / Retire Statistical Significance”: Your chance to sign a petition!” by Andrew Gelman, posted at StatsBlogs] “Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, and Blake McShane write:” “We have a forthcoming comment in Nature arguing that it is time…
Read MoreReplications Can Lessen the Pressure To Get It Right the First Time — And That Can Be a Good Thing
[From the blog “(back to basics:) How is statistics relevant to scientific discovery?” by Andrew Gelman, posted at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science] “If we are discouraged from criticizing published work—or if our criticism elicits pushback and attacks…
Read MoreSurveying Reproducibility
[From the article “Assessing data availability and research reproducibility in hydrology and water resources” by Stagge, Rosenberg, Abdallah, Akbar, Attallah & James, published in Nature’s Scientific Data] “…reproducibility requires multiple, progressive components such as (i) all data, models, code, directions,…
Read MoreScientific Errors? There’s an App for That!
[From the article “Will scientific error checkers become as ubiquitous as spell-checkers?” posted at Retraction Watch] “Jonathan Wren and Constantin Georgescu of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation used an algorithmic approach to mine abstracts on MEDLINE for statistical ratios (e.g., hazard…
Read MoreWhen Trying to Explain p-Values, Maybe Try This?
[From the blog “P-values 101: An attempt at an intuitive but mathematically correct explanation” by Xenia Schmalz, posted at Xenia Schmalz’s blog] “…what exactly are p-values, what is p-hacking, and what does all of that have to do with the replication crisis?…
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