Susan Holmes has done us a service by writing clearly the philosophy of the p-value in her new paper "Statistical Proof? The Problem of Irreproducibility" in the Bulletin of the…

My enemies managed to change the spelling of Principal in the title. They are everywhere. Principal Component Analysis There is an extremely popular analytic technique called Principal Component Analysis, or…

It's bottom-of-the-barrel trolling to cite anything from Daily Kos, but this one is particularly asinine and worth showing to demonstrate the futility of p-values. Thanks to Al Perrella for the…

Headline: Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing: Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris Scientists…

The Substitute For P-values paper is popular. Received an email from the American Statistical Association informing me of the unusual viewing activity. The email copies this earlier email (I'm cutting…

We are finally at the most crucial part of the modeling process: proving if the damned thing works. Not "works" in the sense that we get good unobservable parameter estimates,…

Headline New study says you might be a psychopath if you like black coffee A new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria says that people who drink their…