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How to avoid making mountains out of molehills (using power and severity)
. In preparation for a new post that takes up some of the recent battles on reforming or replacing p-values, I reblog an older post on power, one of the most misunderstood and abused notions in...
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Why significance testers should reject the argument to “redefine statistical...
. An argument that assumes the very thing that was to have been argued for is guilty of begging the question; signing on to an argument whose conclusion you favor even though you cannot defend its...
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60 yrs of Cox’s (1958) weighing machine, & links to binge-read the Likelihood...
. 2018 will mark 60 years since the famous chestnut from Sir David Cox (1958). The example “is now usually called the ‘weighing machine example,’ which draws attention to the need for conditioning, at...
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Midnight With Birnbaum (Happy New Year 2017)
Just as in the past 6 years since I’ve been blogging, I revisit that spot in the road at 11p.m., just outside the Elbar Room, look to get into a strange-looking taxi, to head to “Midnight With...
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