July 4, 2014 was the two year anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. As the world was celebrating the “5 sigma!” announcement, and we were reading about the statistical aspects of this major accomplishment, I was aghast to be emailed a letter, purportedly instigated by Bayesian Dennis Lindley, through Tony O’Hagan (to the ISBA). Lindley, according […]
Memory Lane: reblog July 11, 2012 (+ updates at the end). I suppose[ed] this was somewhat of a joke from the ISBA, prompted by Dennis Lindley, but as I [now] accord the actual extent of jokiness to be only ~10%, I’m sharing it on the blog [i]. Lindley (according to O’Hagan) wonders why scientists require […]
Working on the last two chapters of my book on philosophy of statistical inference, I’m revisiting such topics as weak conditioning, Birnbaum, likelihood principle, etc., and was reading from the Proceedings of the Berkeley Conference in Honor of Jerzy Neyman and Jack Kiefer (1985)[i]. In a paper I had not seen (or had forgotten), Jim [...]
