Thankyou Jiangang! A Ten-Year Journey to Significance Roulette

Jiangang Xia is an enterprising professor at the University of Nebraska who, among many other things, teaches into China. He alerted me some years ago to the difficulty his students in China had accessing my videos because YouTube was blocked for them. So I mou

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The p Value Casino Is Open–For Significance Roulette!

Bradley Dean

Excel 2003, the best version ever, was enshittified by MicroSoft in the 2007 version, which was way slower and dropped many wonderful animation facilities :-(. Even vast efforts would not get my great Significance Roulette simulation running in the n

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/29/the-p-value-casino-is-open-for-significance-roulette/

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Open Science: Free Zoom With the Experts Next Week

Definitely worth joining on 18 December, even if for me it's at 6.30am. Note the first three speakers also kindly gave generous endorsements of ITNS2, at the start of the book. OS leaders, for sure.

Info and registration here. The announcement:

In 2025, SIPS will hold its 10th annual meeting! In celebration of t

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/12/09/open-science-free-zoom-with-the-experts-next-week/

#ITNS #OpenScience

Open Science: Free Zoom With the Experts Next Week | Introduction to the New Statistics

Definitely worth joining on 18 December, even if for me it's at 6.30am. Note the first three speakers also kindly gave generous endorsements of ITNS2, at the start of the book. OS leaders, for sure. Info and registration here. The announcement: In 2025, SIPS will hold its 10th annual meeting! In celebration of this milestone, please join

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‘The New Statistics’ (2013) Wins Sage 10-Year Impact Award

The New Statistics: Why and How (abstract below) explained the advantages of moving on from NHST to the new statistics (estimation and meta-analysis) and the need for better practices to improve research integrity. I'm delighted that an awar

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/07/04/the-new-statistics-2013-wins-sage-10-year-impact-award/

#ITNS #Metaanalysis #Metascience #NHST #OpenScience #Teaching #TheNewStatistics

‘The New Statistics’ (2013) Wins Sage 10-Year Impact Award | Introduction to the New Statistics

The New Statistics: Why and How (abstract below) explained the advantages of moving on from NHST to the new statistics (estimation and meta-analysis) and the need for better practices to improve research integrity. I'm delighted that an award from Sage indicates the article seems to be helping researchers improve what they do. Next: Can ITNS2

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Booklisti. For Finding Interesting Books, Now Including ITNS2

Exploring Booklisti is a neat way to find good books to read.

Booklisti, would you believe, comprises lots of short lists of books that hang together. I have two lists, ITNS2 appearing in each. My first list is just UTNS, my first book, and ITNS2, our se

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/06/12/booklisti-for-finding-interesting-books-now-including-itns2/

#ITNS #OpenScience #TheNewStatistics #Uncategorized

Booklisti. For Finding Interesting Books, Now Including ITNS2 | Introduction to the New Statistics

Exploring Booklisti is a neat way to find good books to read. Booklisti, would you believe, comprises lots of short lists of books that hang together. I have two lists, ITNS2 appearing in each. My first list is just UTNS, my first book, and ITNS2, our second edition of the intro book. My second list

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Meet Petra: Enthusiasm for Archaeology, Open Science, and Better Statistics

Lunch with Petra Vaiglova

It was a pleasure to meet Petra Vaiglova a few days ago while she was in Melbourne for an archaeology conference. Fiona Fidler joined us for lunch--thanks to her for hosting.

Originally from the Czech Republic (C

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#ITNS #Metascience #OpenScience #Teaching

Meet Petra: Enthusiasm for Archaeology, Open Science, and Better Statistics | Introduction to the New Statistics

It was a pleasure to meet Petra Vaiglova a few days ago while she was in Melbourne for an archaeological science conference. Fiona Fidler joined us for lunch--thanks to her for hosting. Originally from the Czech Republic (Czechia), Petra has lived, studied, and worked all over the world, as you can see at her site.

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To Find Interesting Books, Explore shepherd.com, Now Including ITNS2

A couple of years back I posted (here) about shepherd.com, which has gone from strength to strength as an engaging way to browse books for interesting finds. I've updated our shepherd entry to ITNS2 and tweaked our recommendations, with Pennington's little gem on Op

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/04/27/to-find-interesting-books-explore-shepherd-com-now-including-itns2/

#ITNS #OpenScience #TheNewStatistics

To Find Interesting Books, Explore shepherd.com, Now Including ITNS2 | Introduction to the New Statistics

A couple of years back I posted (here) about shepherd.com, which has gone from strength to strength as an engaging way to browse books for interesting finds. I've updated our shepherd entry to ITNS2 and tweaked our recommendations, with Pennington's little gem on Open Science now first on the list. The start of our entry:

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Choosing a Textbook Cover Design

It’s a delicious moment when the publisher sends a number of options their graphic designer has dreamed up for the cover. Below are the options for the three books. In each case, can you pick our choice? Our choices are below—don’t scroll down yet… 

UTNS (2012) ...at left.

ITNS1 (2017) ...below.

ITNS

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/04/22/choosing-a-textbook-cover-design/

#ITNS #StatisticalGraphics #Uncategorized

Choosing a Textbook Cover Design | Introduction to the New Statistics

It’s a delicious moment when the publisher sends a number of options their graphic designer has dreamed up for the cover. Below are the options for the three books. In each case, can you pick our choice? Our choices are below—don’t scroll down yet… UTNS (2012) ...at left. ITNS1 (2017) ...below. ITNS2 (2024) ...below. The

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‘Treasure’: Claire’s Gorgeous Resin Artwork

Treasure, at left, by Claire Layman, 150 × 50cm, resin on stretched canvas. Claire is an internationally recognised artist, also a longtime friend.

Walk into our living room and be struck by the vibrancy and depth of colour of Treasure, so much more alive than any small printed copy can be.

Claire ge

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‘Treasure’: Claire’s Gorgeous Resin Artwork | Introduction to the New Statistics

Treasure, at left, by Claire Layman, 150 × 50cm, resin on stretched canvas. Claire is an internationally recognised artist, also a longtime friend. Walk into our living room and be struck by the vibrancy and depth of colour of Treasure, so much more alive than any small printed copy can be. Claire generously agreed that

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Fun with esci in R: The simple two-group design

esci is now available as a module in jamovi and as a package in R (JASP coming soon, hopefully). Let's have some fun with esci in R!

We'll start with a simple two-group design. Specifically, we'll use data from Experiment 4 of ​(Kardas & O’Brien, 2018)​. In this study, participants watched a video explaining how to do a

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/03/25/fun-with-esci-in-r-the-simple-two-group-design/

#ITNS #StatsTools

Fun with esci in R: The simple two-group design | Introduction to the New Statistics

esci is now available as a module in jamovi and as a package in R (JASP coming soon, hopefully). Let's have some fun with esci in R! We'll start with a simple two-group design. Specifically, we'll use data from Experiment 4 of ​(Kardas & O’Brien, 2018)​. In this study, participants watched a video explaining how

Introduction to the New Statistics | The online community and blog for ITNS