Posts Tagged ‘ criticism of frequentist methods ’

Return to the comedy hour…(on significance tests)

September 9, 2012
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Return to the comedy hour…(on significance tests)

These days, so many theater productions are updated reviews of older standards. Same with the comedy hours at the Bayesian retreat, and task force meetings of significance test reformers. So (on the 1-year anniversary of this blog) let’s listen in to one of the earliest routines (with highest blog hits), but with some new reflections [...]

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A “Bayesian Bear” rejoinder practically writes itself…

August 6, 2012
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A “Bayesian Bear” rejoinder practically writes itself…

These stilted bear figures and their voices are sufficiently obnoxious in their own right, even without the tedious lampooning of p-values and the feigned horror at learning they should not be reported as posterior probabilities. Coincidentally, I have been sent several different p-value U-Tube clips in the past two weeks, rehearsing essentially the same interpretive [...]

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