Here’s one last entry in honor of Egon Pearson’s birthday: “Statistical Concepts in Their Relation to Reality” (Pearson 1955). I’ve posted it several times over the years (6!), but always find a new gem or two, despite its being so short. E. Pearson rejected some of the familiar tenets that have come to be associated with […]
This is a belated birthday post for E.S. Pearson (11 August 1895-12 June, 1980). It’s basically a post from 2012 which concerns an issue of interpretation (long-run performance vs probativeness) that’s badly confused these days. I’ll blog some E. Pearson items this week, including, my latest reflection on a historical anecdote regarding Egon and the woman he wanted […]
For my final Jerzy Neyman item, here’s the post I wrote for his birthday last year: A local acting group is putting on a short theater production based on a screenplay I wrote: “Les Miserables Citations” (“Those Miserable Quotes”) [1]. The “miserable” citations are those everyone loves to cite, from their early joint 1933 paper: We are inclined to think that as […]
By Aris Spanos One of R. A. Fisher’s (17 February 1890 — 29 July 1962) most remarkable, but least recognized, achievement was to initiate the recasting of statistical induction. Fisher (1922) pioneered modern frequentist statistics as a model-based approach to statistical induction anchored on the notion of a statistical model, formalized by: Mθ(x)={f(x;θ); θ∈Θ}; x∈Rn […]
To complete the last post, here’s Pearson’s portion of the “triad” “Statistical Concepts in Their Relation to Reality” by E.S. PEARSON (1955) SUMMARY: This paper contains a reply to some criticisms made by Sir Ronald Fisher in his recent article on “Scientific Methods and Scientific Induction”. Controversies in the field of mathematical statistics seem largely […]
More Fisher insights from A. Spanos, this from 2 years ago: One of R. A. Fisher’s (17 February 1890 — 29 July 1962) most remarkable, but least recognized, achievement was to initiate the recasting of statistical induction. Fisher (1922) pioneered modern frequentist statistics as a model-based approach to statistical induction anchored on the notion of a […]
For a bit more on the statistical philosophy of Egon Sharpe (E.S.) Pearson (11 Aug, 1895-12 June, 1980), I reblog a post from last year. It gets to the question I now call: performance or probativeness? Are frequentist methods mainly useful to supply procedures which will not err too frequently in some long run? (performance) […]
Egon Sharpe (E.S.) Pearson’s birthday was August 11. This slightly belated birthday discussion is directly connected to the question of the uses to which frequentist methods may be put in inquiry. Are they limited to supplying procedures which will not err too frequently in some vast long run? Or are these long run results of [...]
Today is Egon Pearson’s birthday, but I will postpone some discussion of his work for a few days. He is, as Erich Lehmann noted in his review of EGEK (1996)[i]*, “the hero of Mayo’s story” because one may find throughout his work, if only in side discussions, hints, and examples, the key elements for an [...]
