Vale Michael Kubovy (1940-2025), Professor of Patterns

I don't think I ever met Michael, but have long known his Gestalt perception work. I now discover he did so much more, especially as a pioneer in data analysis. He and I would have agreed on many, many things.

This post is courtesy Alex Holcombe, who wrote:

A tribute to Mi

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/09/03/vale-michael-kubovy-1940-2025-professor-of-patterns/

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Estimation, Open Science, and Bob’s Wonderful New esci

Our open access article just released at https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13132:

Highlights

Three dramatisations of the enormous unreliability of the p value. Can these help weaken researchers' addiction to NHST that has withstood more than half a centu

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/05/04/estimation-open-science-and-bobs-wonderful-new-esci/

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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/

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The Latest on esci: Geoff’s Talk to Turku

Yesterday I greatly enjoyed a zoom talk with the Open Science Community of Turku, Finland. Online were good folks from Finland, The Netherlands and I don't know where else. Great questions at the end!

My slides and 3 data files (download the lot as a

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2023/10/18/the-latest-on-esci-geoffs-talk-to-turku/

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2nd Edition Now With Routledge!

Bob and I are delighted to report that we've submitted ITNS2 to the publisher. Routledge say to expect it 'early in 2024'. We're hoping they may have something in time for faculty making textbook decisions for the N. Hemisphere Spring Semester.

Not only a new cover design, but also: Bob's wonderful esci 1.0.1 i

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2023/08/13/2nd-edition-now-with-routledge/

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