Error Statistics Philosophy
Happy Birthday C. S. Peirce: Peircean Induction and the Error-Correcting Thesis
Data centers: how about an adversarial collaboration?
Preregistration has a socio-epistemological and a logical rationale
2026 David Cox Foundations of Statistics Award: Peter McCullagh
Can You Make Me More Capable? Of Art, Astrophysics and AI
Happy belated birthday Sir David Cox
Announcement: CFP Synthese Topical Collection: Severity and Learning from Error
‘Low power’ and an all too standard error (continuation of “don’t turn power on its head”)
Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge cover: 30 years ago
Comments on “The ASA p-value statement 10 years on”
Power and Severity with nonsignificant results
Continuing the blizzard of 26 power puzzles
A Blizzard of Power Puzzles Replicate in Meta-Research
Leisurely Cruise February 2026: power, shpower, positive predictive value
Severe testing of deep learning models of cognition (i)
(JAN #2) Leisurely cruise January 2026: Excursion 4 Tour II: 4.4 “Do P-Values Exaggerate the Evidence?”
(JAN #1) Leisurely Cruise January 2026: Excursion 4 Tour I: The Myth of “The Myth of Objectivity” (Mayo 2018, CUP)
Midnight With Birnbaum: Happy New Year 2025!
For those who want to binge read the (Strong) Likelihood Principle in 2025
67 Years of Cox’s (1958) Chestnut: Excerpt from Excursion 3 Tour II
(DEC #2) December Leisurely Tour Meeting 3: SIST Excursion 3 Tour III
December leisurely cruise “It’s the Methods, Stupid!” Excursion 3 Tour II (3.4-3.6)
Modest replication probabilities of p-values–desirable, not regrettable: a note from Stephen Senn
First Look at N-P Methods as Severe Tests: Water plant accident [Exhibit (i) from Excursion 3]
Neyman-Pearson Tests: An Episode in Anglo-Polish Collaboration: (3.2)
Where Are Fisher, Neyman, Pearson in 1919? Opening of Excursion 3, snippets from 3.1
November: The leisurely tour of SIST continues
Severity and Adversarial Collaborations
Excursion 1 Tour I (3rd stop): The Current State of Play in Statistical Foundations: A View From a Hot-Air Balloon (1.3)
The ASA Sir David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award is now annual
Excursion 1 Tour I (2nd Stop): Probabilism, Performance, and Probativeness (1.2)
2025(1)The leisurely cruise begins: Excerpt from Excursion 1 Tour 1 of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing (SIST)
2025 Leisurely cruise through Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: First Announcement
My BJPS paper: Severe Testing: Error Statistics versus Bayes Factor Tests
Are We Listening? Part II of “Sennsible significance” Commentary on Senn’s Guest Post
“Sennsible significance” Commentary on Senn’s Guest Post (Part I)
Stephen Senn (guest post): “Relevant significance? Be careful what you wish for”
(Guest Post) Stephen Senn: “Delta Force: To what extent is clinical relevance relevant?” (reblog)
A recent “brown bag” I gave in Philo at Va Tech: “What is the Philosophy of Statistics? (and how I was drawn to it)”
Error statistics doesn’t blame for possible future crimes of QRPs (ii)
Roderick Little’s new book: Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics
4 years ago: Falsifying claims of trust in bat coronavirus research: mysteries of the mine (i)-(iv)
Leaked: A Private Message From ChatGPT
“Are Controversies in Statistics Relevant for Responsible AI/ML? (My talk at an AI ethics conference) (ii)
Leisurely Cruise February 2025: power, shpower, positive predictive value
Return to Classical Epistemology: Sensitivity and Severity: Gardiner and Zaharatos (2022) (i)