Memory Lane: 3 years ago. Oxford Jail (also called Oxford Castle) is an entirely fitting place to be on (and around) Halloween! Moreover, rooting around this rather lavish set of jail cells (what used to be a single cell is now a dressing room) is every bit as conducive to philosophical reflection as is exile on Elba! (It […]
Memory Lane: 3 years ago. Oxford Jail (also called Oxford Castle) is an entirely fitting place to be on (and around) Halloween! Moreover, rooting around this rather lavish set of jail cells (what used to be a single cell is now a dressing room) is every bit as conducive to philosophical reflection as is exile on Elba! (It […]
Today is Egon Pearson’s birthday: 11 August 1895-12 June, 1980. E. Pearson rejected some of the familiar tenets that have come to be associated with Neyman and Pearson (N-P) statistical tests, notably the idea that the essential justification for tests resides in a long-run control of rates of erroneous interpretations–what he termed the “behavioral” rationale of tests. In an […]
Four score years ago (!) we held the conference “Statistical Science and Philosophy of Science: Where Do (Should) They meet?” at the London School of Economics, Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, CPNSS, where I’m visiting professor [1] Many of the discussions on this blog grew out of contributions from the conference, and conversations […]
John E. Byrd, Ph.D. D-ABFA Central Identification Laboratory JPAC Guest, March 27, PHil 6334 “Statistical Considerations of the Histomorphometric Test Protocol for Determination of Human Origin of Skeletal Remains” By: John E. Byrd, Ph.D...
“Philosophy majors rule” according to this recent article. We philosophers should be getting the word out. Admittedly, the type of people inclined to do well in philosophy are already likely to succeed in analytic areas. Coupled with the chuzpah of taking up an “outmoded and impractical” major like philosophy in the first place, innovative tendencies […]
Slides (2 sets) from Phil 6334 2/27/14 class (Day#6). D. Mayo: “Frequentist Statistics as a Theory of Inductive Inference” A. Spanos “Probability/Statistics Lecture Notes 4: Hypothesis Testing” Filed under: P-values, Phil 633...
Day #2, Part 1: D. Mayo: Class, Part 2: A. Spanos: Probability/Statistics Lecture Notes 1: Introduction to Probability and Statistical Inference Day #1 slides are here.Filed under: Phil 6334 class material, Philosophy of Statistics, Statistics
BOSTON COLLOQUIUM FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2013–2014 54th Annual Program Download the 54th Annual Program REVISITING THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA: SCALING UP TO MEET THE CHALLENGE Cosponsored by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Boston University. Friday, February 21, 2014 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Photonics Center, 9th Floor Colloquium […]
First installment 6334 syllabus (Mayo and Spanos) D. Mayo slides from Day #1: Jan 23, 2014 I will post seminar slides here (they will generally be ragtag affairs), links to the papers are in the syllabus.Filed under: Phil 6334 class material, Phi...
