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Continuing with posts on E.S. Pearson in marking his birthday, I reblog this guest post by Aris Spanos.  Egon Pearson’s Neglected Contributions to Statistics by Aris Spanos     Egon Pearson...

https://errorstatistics.com/2022/08/14/a-spanos-egon-pearsons-neglected-contributions-to-statistics-7/

Continuing with posts in recognition of R.A. Fisher’s birthday, I reblog (with a few new comments) one from a few years ago on a topic that had previously not been discussed on this blog: Fishe...

https://errorstatistics.com/2022/02/22/cant-take-the-fiducial-out-of-fisher-if-you-want-to-understand-the-n-p-performance-philosophy-i-4/

How did I respond to those 7 burning questions at last week’s (“P-Value”) Statistics Debate? Here’s a fairly close transcript of my (a) general answer, and (b) final remark, for each ques...

https://errorstatistics.com/2020/10/21/my-responses-at-the-p-value-debate/

October 15, Noon – 2 pm ET (Website) Where do YOU stand? Given the issues surrounding the misuses and abuse of p-values, do you think p-values should be used? Do you think the use of estimation...

https://errorstatistics.com/2020/10/07/the-statistics-debate-niss-debate-october-15-noon-2-pm-et/

Yesterday was statistician George Barnard’s 105th birthday. To acknowledge it, I reblog an exchange between Barnard, Savage (and others) on likelihood vs probability. The exchange is from pp 79...

https://errorstatistics.com/2020/09/24/g-a-barnards-105th-birthday-the-bayesian-catch-all-factor-probability-vs-likelihood/

Today is Allan Birnbaum’s birthday. In honor of his birthday, I’m posting the articles in the Synthese volume that was dedicated to his memory in 1977. The editors describe it as their way of...

https://errorstatistics.com/2020/05/27/birthday-of-allan-birnbaum-foundations-of-probability-and-statistics-27-may-1923-1-july-1976/

My “April 1” posts for the past 8 years have been so close to the truth or possible truth that they weren’t always spotted as April Fool’s pranks, which is what made them genuine April Fo...

https://errorstatistics.com/2020/04/01/april-1-2020-memory-lane-of-april-1s-past/

My new paper, “P Values on Trial: Selective Reporting of (Best Practice Guides Against) Selective Reporting” is out in Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). HDSR describes itself as a A Microsc...

https://errorstatistics.com/2020/02/01/my-paper-p-values-on-trial-is-out-in-harvard-data-science-review/

I’m reblogging a post from Christmas past–exactly 7 years ago. Guess what I gave as the number 1 (of 13) howler well-worn criticism of statistical significance tests, haunting us back in 2012...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/12/24/posts-of-christmas-past-1-13-howlers-of-significance-tests-and-how-to-avoid-them/

This week marks one year since the general availability of my book: Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (2018, CUP). Here’s how it begins (Excursion 1...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/10/08/how-my-book-begins-beyond-probabilism-and-performance-severity-requirement/

Continuing with posts on E.S. Pearson in marking his birthday: Egon Pearson’s Neglected Contributions to Statistics by Aris Spanos     Egon Pearson (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980), is wide...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/08/17/a-spanos-egon-pearsons-neglected-contributions-to-statistics-6/

Some have asked me why I haven’t blogged on the recent follow-up to the ASA Statement on P-Values and Statistical Significance (Wasserstein and Lazar 2016)–hereafter, ASA I. They’re referri...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/06/17/the-2019-asa-guide-to-p-values-and-statistical-significance-dont-say-what-you-dont-mean-some-recommendations/

I’ll continue to post Neyman-related items this week in honor of his birthday. This isn’t the only paper in which Neyman makes it clear he denies a distinction between a test of  statistical...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/04/19/neyman-distinguishing-tests-of-statistical-hypotheses-and-tests-of-significance-might-have-been-a-lapse-of-someones-pen-4/

My second Jerzy Neyman item, in honor of his birthday, is a little play that I wrote for Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (2018): A local acting grou...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/04/17/jerzy-neyman-and-les-miserables-citations-statistical-theater-in-honor-of-his-birthday-yesterday/

This continues my previous post: “Can’t take the fiducial out of Fisher…” in recognition of Fisher’s birthday, February 17. These 2 posts reflect my working out of these ideas in writin...

https://errorstatistics.com/2019/02/23/deconstructing-the-fisher-neyman-conflict-wearing-fiducial-glasses-excerpt-5-8-from-sist/