Tag Archives: Deborah Mayo

Testing our scientific tests

Posted on December 8, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We recently reviewed the abstract and slides of Deborah Mayo’s 3 Dec. 2014 presentation at Rutgers University. Her excellent talk was titled “Probing with severity: beyond Bayesian probabilism and frequentist performance.” (Both the abstract and the slides of her lecture … Continue reading →

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Multiple Comparisons and the Law

Posted on October 21, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Originally posted on Error Statistics Philosophy:
. The following is from Nathan Schachtman’s legal blog, with various comments and added emphases (by me). He will try to reply to comments/queries. “Courts Can and Must Acknowledge Multiple Comparisons in Statistical Analyses”…

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Three questions for Nate Silver

Posted on May 22, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

1. “If people are so inclined to see the world through their tunnel vision, why suppose they are able/willing to be explicit about their biases?” 2. “If priors are to represent biases, shouldn’t they be kept separate from the data … Continue reading →

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