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In a July 19, 2019 post I discussed The New England Journal of Medicine’s response to Wasserstein’s (2019) call for journals to change their guidelines in reaction to the “abandon significa...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/04/19/5-year-review-the-nejm-issues-new-guidelines-on-statistical-reporting-is-the-asa-p-value-project-backfiring-i/

On June 1, 2019, I posted portions of an article ,“There is Still a Place for Significance Testing in Clinical Trials,” in Clinical Trials responding to the 2019 call to abandon significance....

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/04/17/5-year-review-dont-let-the-tail-wag-the-dog-by-being-overly-influenced-by-flawed-statistical-inferences/

It was 3 months before I decided to write a blogpost in response to Wasserstein, Schirm and Lazar (2019)’s editorial in The American Statistician in which they recommend that the concept of “...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/04/05/my-2019-friendly-amendments-to-that-abandon-significance-editorial/

  Five years ago on this day, a news correspondent at NPR, Richard Harris, published this article, the same day as Wasserstein et al., (2019). Moving to a world beyond “p < 0.05”. TAS, and A...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/03/20/5-years-ago-today-march-20-2019-the-start-of-abandon-significance/

In my last post, I sketched some first remarks I would have made had I been able to travel to London to fulfill my invitation to speak at a Royal Society conference, March 4 and 5, 2024, on “th...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/03/17/preregistration-promises-and-pitfalls-continued/

I had been invited to speak at a Royal Society meeting, held March 4 and 5, 2024, on “the promises and pitfalls of preregistration”—a topic in which I’m keenly interested. The meeting was...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/03/06/promises-and-pitfalls-of-preregistration-an-rss-conference-i-was-to-speak-at/

Today is R.A. Fisher’s birthday! I am reblogging what I call the “Triad”–an exchange between  Fisher, Neyman and Pearson (N-P) published 20 years after the Fisher-Neyman break-up. While ...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/02/17/happy-birthday-r-a-fisher-statistical-methods-and-scientific-induction-with-replies-by-neyman-and-e-s-pearson-2/

I will be giving an online talk on Friday, Feb 2, 4:30-5:45 NYC time, at a conference you can watch on zoom this week (Jan 30-Feb 2): Is Philosophy Useful for Science, and/or Vice Versa?  It’s...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/01/31/conference-is-philosophy-useful-for-science-and-or-vice-versa-jan-30-feb-2-2024/

I want to extend my warmest thanks to all who became Friends of David R. Cox in 2022. Your generous donations to the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award are honoring the contributions of...

https://errorstatistics.com/2024/01/10/friends-of-david-r-cox-2022/

For three of the last four years, it was not feasible to actually revisit that spot in the road, looking to get into a strange-looking taxi, to head to “Midnight With Birnbaum”.  Even last y...

https://errorstatistics.com/2023/12/31/midnight-with-birnbaum-happy-new-year-2024/

If you read my 2023 paper on Cox’s philosophy of statistics, you’ll have come across Cox’s famous “weighing machine” example, which is thought to have caused “a subtle earthquake” i...

https://errorstatistics.com/2023/12/30/a-weekend-to-binge-read-the-strong-likelihood-principle/

On November 14, I gave a talk at the Seminar in Advanced Research Methods for the Department of Psychology, Princeton University. “Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: Beyond Probabilism a...

https://errorstatistics.com/2023/12/27/princeton-talk-statistical-inference-as-severe-testing-beyond-performance-and-probabilism/

  It’s been 1 year (December 8, 2022) since our workshop, The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties! There were four sessions, held over 4 days. Below are the videos and slides from all four se...

https://errorstatistics.com/2023/12/08/1-year-ago-today-the-statistics-wars-and-their-casualties-workshop/

After some wrestling with the Zenodo system of uploading, my paper “Sir David Cox’s Statistical Philosophy and its Relevance to Today’s Statistical Controversies” is now published (open a...

https://errorstatistics.com/2023/10/31/new-paper-sir-david-coxs-statistical-philosophy-and-its-relevance-to-todays-statistical-controversies-jsm-proceedings/

I’m not comfortable in the role of fundraiser, but I am comfortable in the role of promoting the importance of statistical foundations, and that’s how I see the David R. Cox Foundations of St...

https://errorstatistics.com/2023/10/24/if-you-want-to-add-your-name-to-the-list-of-friends-of-sir-david-cox-matching-funds-are-extended-to-dec-1-2023/