BOSTON COLLOQUIUM FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2016–2017 57th Annual Program Download the 57th Annual Program The Alfred I. Taub forum: UNDERSTANDING REPRODUCIBILITY & ERROR CORRECTION IN SCIENCE Cosponsored by GMS and BU’s BEST at Boston University. Friday, March 17, 2017 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Avenue Reputation, […]
David Mellor, from the Center for Open Science, emailed me asking if I’d announce his Preregistration Challenge on my blog, and I’m glad to do so. You win $1,000 if your properly preregistered paper is published. The recent replication effort in psychology showed, despite the common refrain – “it’s too easy to get low P-values” – that in […]
The Royal Statistical Society sent me a letter announcing their latest Journal webinar next Wednesday 21 October: …RSS Journal webinar on 21st October featuring Bradley Efron, Andrew Gelman and Peter Diggle. They will be in discussion about Bradley Efron’s recently published paper titled ‘Frequentist accuracy of Bayesian estimates’. The paper was published in June in the […]
Start Spreading the News….. The Philosophy of Statistics: Bayesianism, Frequentism and the Nature of Inference, 2015 APS Annual Convention Saturday, May 23 2:00 PM- 3:50 PM in Wilder (Marriott Marquis 1535 B’way) Andrew Gelman Professor of Statistics & Political Science Columbia University Stephen Senn Head of Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics (CCMS) […]
Kent Staley has written a clear and engaging introduction to PhilSci that manages to blend the central key topics of philosophy of science with current philosophy of statistics. Quite possibly, Staley explains Error Statistics more clearly in many ways than I do in his 10 page section, 9.4. CONGRATULATIONS STALEY* You can get this book for free […]
Kent Staley has written a clear and engaging introduction to PhilSci that manages to blend the central key topics of philosophy of science with current philosophy of statistics. Quite possibly, Staley explains Error Statistics more clearly in many ways than I do in his 10 page section, 9.4. CONGRATULATIONS STALEY* You can get this book for free […]
I’ll be talking about philosophy of statistics tomorrow afternoon at Rutgers University, in the Statistics and Biostatistics Department, if you happen to be in the vicinity and are interested. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND BIOSTATISTICS www.stat.rutgers.edu Seminar Speaker: Professor Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech Title: Probing with Severity: Beyond […]
September 2014: Error Statistics Philosophy Blog Table of Contents Compiled by Jean A. Miller (9/30) Letter from George (Barnard) (9/27) Should a “Fictionfactory” peepshow be barred from a festival on “Truth and Reality”? Diederik Stapel says no (rejected post) (9/23) G.A. Barnard: The Bayesian “catch-all” factor: probability vs likelihood (9/21) Statistical Theater of the Absurd: “Stat on a […]
Where did you hear this? “Join me, if you will, for a little deep-water drilling, as I cast about on my isle of Elba.” Remember this and this? And this philosophical treatise on “moving blog day”? Oy, did I really write all this stuff? I still see this as my rag-tag amateur blog. I never […]
Friday, May 2, 2014, I will attempt to present my critical analysis of the Birnbaum argument for the (strong) Likelihood Principle, so as to be accessible to a general philosophy audience (flyer below). Can it be done? I don’t know yet, this is a first. It will consist of: Example 1: Trying and Trying Again: Optional stopping […]
