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
A Statistics Textbook for the AI Era
Miodrag Lovrić
Miodrag Lovrić is an enormously energetic statistician and educator. He persuaded 700 scholars from 110 countries to contribute to the massive four-volume second edition of the International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science (Springer, 2025).
Now he is close to completing Statistical Thinking for the
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/01/15/a-statistics-textbook-for-the-ai-era/
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/
#ITNS #NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #TheNewStatistics
“The New Statistics” by INXS: Why Not?!
Thanks to Prof Dena A. Pastor, of James Madison University for this suggestion.
Whenever you hear the hit New Sensation, by Australian rock band INXS, replace "A new sensation" with "The New Statistics". This works for me (of course it would), even if the '80s are a bit recent for me.
Enjoy!
Geoff
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/03/the-new-statistics-by-inxs-why-not/
‘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: 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
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
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
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/
#NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #StatsTools #TheNewStatistics
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
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:
Vale Danny Kahneman, Giant of Statistical Cognition and Much Else
Danny Kahneman died on 27 March at 90. The APS announcement is here. I've posted about him before. The best quick read may be this 2016 New Yorker piece by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Thaler of Nudge fame.
He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for fo
Danny Kahneman died on 27 March at 90. The APS announcement is here. I've posted about him before. The best quick read may be this 2016 New Yorker piece by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Thaler of Nudge fame. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for foundational work on behavioural economics that was joint
Vale Bob Rosenthal, Statistical Reform Leader and Much Else
I was much saddened to read of the death last month of Bob Rosenthal. See this obituary; and another in the New York Times.
I met him first in 1996 when I called on him at Harvard to discuss statistical reform. What a gentle, encouraging, and thoroughly nic
I was much saddened to read of the death last month of Bob Rosenthal. See this obituary; and another in the New York Times. I met him first in 1996 when I called on him at Harvard to discuss statistical reform. What a gentle, encouraging, and thoroughly nice person! What a giant intellect! He loved
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