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Overheard at the comedy hour at the Bayesian retreat:

“Did you hear the one about the frequentist . . . “who claimed that observing “heads” on a biased coin that lands heads with probability .05 is evidence of a statistically significant improvement over...

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R.A.FISHER: Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference

In honor of R.A. Fisher’s birthday this week (Feb 17), in a year that will mark 50 years since his death, we will post the “Triad” exchange between  Fisher, Pearson and Neyman, and other guest...

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Mayo Responds to U-Phils on Background Information

Thanks to Emrah Aktunc and Christian Hennig for their U-Phils on my September 12 post: “How should ‘prior information’ enter in statistical inference?” and my subsequent deconstruction of Gelman[i]...

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First blog: “Did you hear the one about the frequentist…”? and “Frequentists...

Dear Reader: Tonight marks the 2-year anniversary of this blog; so I’m reblogging my very first posts from 9/3/11 here and here (from the rickety old blog site)*. (One was the “about”.) The current...

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