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philstatwars.wordpress.com
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| | | | | General Schedule PDF CLICK ON READINGS Topic: Current Controversies in Phil Stat (LSE, Remote 15:00 - 17:00; Thursdays 21 May-18 June) Main Text SIST:Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics WarsCUP, 2018)*: Slides for each meeting will be on individual meeting posts on this blog. I. (May 21) Introduction: Controversies in... | |
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blog.apaonline.org
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| | | | | "[C]onfusion about the foundations of the subject is responsible, in my opinion, for much of the misuse of the statistics that one meets in fields of application such as medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, and so forth." (George Barnard 1985, p. 2) "Relevant clarifications of the nature and roles of statistical evidence in scientific research may | |
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www.statsblogs.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article argues against teaching null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) in statistics courses due to its ineffectiveness, danger, and lack of purpose, advocating instead for estimation and meta-analysis as more informative methods. | |
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dustintran.com
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| | | One aspect I always enjoy about machine learning is that questions often go back to the basics. The field essentially goes into an existential crisis every dozen years-rethinking our tools and asking foundational questions such as "why neural networks" or "why generative models".1 This was a theme in my conversations during NIPS 2016 last week, where a frequent topic was on the advantages of a Bayesian perspective to machine learning. Not surprisingly, this appeared as a big discussion point during the p... | ||
