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Tips for Communicating Statistical Significance
‘So what exactly is a p-value?’ That’s the number-one question I get from non-scientists when they hear my specialty is …
When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it: an illustrated feature story
Bite marks, shoe prints, crime-scene fibers: Matches to suspects are often far shakier than courtroom experts claim. Better statistical …
Theodore Anderson, mathematician who advanced data analysis, dies at 98.
Theodore W. Anderson, a statistician whose work brought a new mathematical rigor to economics and social science in the postwar years …
How scientists fool themselves — and how they can stop
Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to …
Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tools to Sift Research Fudge from Fact
Psychology researchers have recently found themselves engaged in a bout of statistical soul-searching. In apparently the first such …
Chance: Peace talks in the probability wars
Working out probabilities is just simple maths, right? Wrong – from drug trials to court cases, being Bayesian or frequentist can make …
Scientific method: statistical errors
P values, the ‘gold standard’ of statistical validity, are not as reliable as many scientists assume.
