July 4, 2014 was the two year anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. As the world was celebrating the “5 sigma!” announcement, and we were reading about the statistical aspects of this major accomplishment, I was aghast to be emailed a letter, purportedly instigated by Bayesian Dennis Lindley, through Tony O’Hagan (to the ISBA). Lindley, according […]
Memory Lane: reblog July 11, 2012 (+ updates at the end). I suppose[ed] this was somewhat of a joke from the ISBA, prompted by Dennis Lindley, but as I [now] accord the actual extent of jokiness to be only ~10%, I’m sharing it on the blog [i]. Lindley (according to O’Hagan) wonders why scientists require […]
Yesterday’s slight detour [i] presents an opportunity to (re)read Lindley’s “Philosophy of Statistics” (2000) (see also an earlier post). I recommend the full article and discussion. There is actually much here on which we agree. The Philosophy of Statistics Dennis V. Lindley The Statistician (2000) 49:293-319 Summary. This paper puts forward an overall view of [...]
I suppose[ed] this was somewhat of a joke from the ISBA, prompted by Dennis Lindley, but as I [now] accord the actual extent of jokiness to be only ~10%, I’m sharing it on the blog [i]. Lindley (according to O’Hagan) wonders why scientists require so high a level of statistical significance before claiming to have [...]
