We are pleased to announce our guest speaker at Thursday’s seminar (April 24, 2014): “Statistics and Scientific Integrity”: S. Stanley Young, PhD Assistant Director for Bioinformatics National Institute of Statistical Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC Author of Resampling-Based Multiple Testing, Westfall and Young (1993) Wiley. The main readings for the discussion are: Young, S. & Karr, […]
News Flash! Congratulations to Cosma Shalizi who announced yesterday that he’d been granted tenure (Statistics, Carnegie Mellon). Cosma is a leading error statistician, a creative polymath and long-time blogger (at Three-Toad sloth). Shalizi wrote an early book review of EGEK (Mayo 1996)* that people still send me from time to time, in case I hadn’t […]
Winner of February 2014 Palindrome Contest Samuel Dickson Palindrome: Rot, Cadet A, I’ve droned! Elba, revile deviant, naïve, deliverable den or deviated actor. The requirement was: A palindrome with Elba plus deviate with an optional second word: deviant. A palindrome that uses both deviate and deviant tops an acceptable palindrome that only uses deviate. Bio: Sam Dickson is […]
BOSTON COLLOQUIUM FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2013–2014 54th Annual Program Download the 54th Annual Program REVISITING THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA: SCALING UP TO MEET THE CHALLENGE Cosponsored by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Boston University. Friday, February 21, 2014 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Photonics Center, 9th Floor Colloquium […]
FURTHER UPDATED: New course for Spring 2014: Thurs 3:30-6:15 (Randolph 209) first installment 6334 syllabus_SYLLABUS (first) Phil 6334: Philosophy of Statistical Inference and Modeling D. Mayo and A. Spanos Contact: error@vt.edu This new course, to be jointly taught by Professors D. Mayo (Philosophy) and A. Spanos (Economics) will provide an introductory, in-depth introduction to graduate […]
New course for Spring 2014: Thursday 3:30-6:15 Phil 6334: Philosophy of Statistical Inference and Modeling D. Mayo and A. Spanos Contact: error@vt.edu This new course, to be jointly taught by Professors D. Mayo (Philosophy) and A. Spanos (Economics) will provide an introductory, in-depth introduction to graduate level research in philosophy of inductive-statistical inference and probabilistic […]
August 2013 (8/1) Blogging (flogging?) the SLP: Response to Reply- Xi’an Robert (8/5) At the JSM: 2013 International Year of Statistics (8/6) What did Nate Silver just say? Blogging the JSM (8/9) 11th bullet, multiple choice question, and last thoughts on the JSM (8/11) E.S. Pearson: “Ideas came into my head as I sat on […]
Aris Spanos Wilson Schmidt Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Virginia Tech Although I have known of James M. Buchanan all of my academic career, I got to known him at a personal level as a colleague and a friend in 2000. Looking back, our first meeting established the nature of our relationship since then. [...]
Yesterday, our colleague and friend, James Buchanan (Nobel prize-winner: 1986, Economics) died at 93. From a NY Times obit [that runs a full half page]: [He] was a leading proponent of public choice theory, which assumes that politicians and government officials, like everyone else, are motivated by self-interest — getting re-elected or gaining more power — [...]
