Ian Waudby-Smith and Aaditya Ramdas are presenting next month a Read Paper to the Royal Statistical Society in London on constructing a conservative confidence interval on the mean of a bounded r...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/09/estimating-means-of-bounded-random-variables-by-betting/
A definitely brilliant entry on xkcd that reflects upon the infinite regress of producing error evaluations that are based on estimates. A must for the next class when I introduce error bars and ...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/03/error-bars-reposted/
As it happens, I recently bought a (used) copy of Confidence, Likelihood, Probability (Statistical Inference with Confidence Distributions), by Tore Schweder and Nils Hjort, to try to understand...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/look-look-confidence-book-review/
While visiting Warwick last week, Jean-Michel Marin pointed out and forwarded me this remarkable paper of Jerzy Neyman, published in 1937, and presented to the Royal Society by Harold Jeffreys. �...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/x-outline-of-a-theory-of-statistical-estimation/
The latest Significance has a short article providing some coverage of the growing trend in the discovery of exoplanets, including new techniques used to detect those expoplanets from their impac...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/exoplanets-at-99-999/
“Many researchers might have observed that the magnitude of a correlation is pretty unstable in small samples.” On the statsblog aggregator, I spotted an entry that eventually led me to this ...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/evolution-of-correlations-award-paper/
The workshop at the BIPM on measurement uncertainty was certainly most exciting, first by its location in the Parc de Saint Cloud in classical buildings overlooking the Seine river in a most buco...
https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/bureau-international-des-poids-et-mesures-bayesiennes/
“We hope and anticipate that banning the NHSTP will have the effect of increasing the quality of submitted manuscripts by liberating authors from the stultified structure of NHSTP thinking ther...