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...
View ArticleR.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...
View ArticleMayo 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]...
View ArticleFirst 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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