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U-Phil (9/25/12) How should “prior information” enter in statistical inference?
Andrew Gelman, sent me an interesting note of his, “Ethics and the statistical use of prior information,”[i]. In section 3 he comments on some of David Cox’s remarks in a conversation we recorded: “A...
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Last part (3) of the deconstruction: beauty and background knowledge
Please see parts 1 and 2 and links therein. The background began in my Sept 12 post. Gelman (2012) considers a case where the overall available evidence, E, is at odds with the indication of the...
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U-Phils: Hennig and Aktunc on Gelman 2012
I am posting two U-Phils I received in relation to the 9/12 call call on Andrew Gelman’s (2012): “Ethics and the statistical use of prior information” A Deconstruction of Gelman by Mayo in 3 parts:...
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Mayo Responds to U-Phils on Background Information
Thanks to Emrah Aktunc and Christian Hennig for their U-Phils on my September 12 post: “How should ‘prior information’ enter in statistical inference?” and my subsequent deconstruction of Gelman[i]...
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U-Phil: Blogging the Likelihood Principle: New Summary
U-Phil: I would like to open up this post, together with Gandenberger’s (Oct. 30, 2012), to reader U-Phils, from December 6- 19 (< 1000 words) for posting on this blog (please see # at bottom of...
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Likelihood Links [for 28 Nov. Seminar and Current U-Phil]
Dear Reader: We just arrived in London[i][ii]. Jean Miller has put together some materials for Birnbaum LP aficionados in connection with my 28 November seminar. Great to have ready links to some of...
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Blogging Birnbaum: on Statistical Methods in Scientific Inference
I said I’d make some comments on Birnbaum’s letter (to Nature), (linked in my last post), which is relevant to today’s Seminar session (at the LSE*), as well as to (Normal Deviate‘s) recent discussion...
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Announcement: U-Phil Extension: Blogging the Likelihood Principle
U-Phil: I am extending to Dec. 19, 2012 the date for sending me responses to the “U-Phil” call, see initial call, given some requests for more time. The details of the specific U-Phil may be found...
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Mayo on S. Senn: “How Can We Cultivate Senn’s-Ability?”–reblogs
Since Stephen Senn will be leading our seminar at the LSE tomorrow morning (see PH500 page), I’m reblogging my deconstruction of his paper (“You May Believe You Are a Bayesian But You Probably Are...
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Coming up: December U-Phil Contributions….
Dear Reader: You were probably* wondering about the December U-Phils (blogging the strong likelihood principle (SLP)). They will be posted, singly or in pairs, over the next few blog entries. Here is...
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U-Phil: S. Fletcher & N.Jinn
“Model Verification and the Likelihood Principle” by Samuel C. Fletcher Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science (PhD Student) University of California, Irvine I’d like to sketch an idea...
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U-Phil: J. A. Miller: Blogging the SLP
Jean Miller Jean A. Miller, PhD Department of Philosophy Virginia Tech MIX & MATCH MESS: A NOTE ON A MISLEADING DISCUSSION OF MAYO’S BIRNBAUM PAPER Mayo in her “rejected” post (12/27/12) briefly...
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U-Phil: Ton o’ Bricks
by Deborah Mayo Birnbaum’s argument for the SLP involves some equivocations that are at once subtle and blatant. The subtlety makes it hard to translate into symbolic logic (I only partially translated...
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Mark Chang (now) gets it right about circularity
Mark Chang wrote a comment this evening, but it is buried back on my Nov. 31 post in relation to the current U-Phil. Given all he has written on my attempt to “break through the breakthrough”, I...
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U-PHIL: Gandenberger & Hennig: Blogging Birnbaum’s Proof
Defending Birnbaum’s Proof Greg Gandenberger PhD student, History and Philosophy of Science Master’s student, Statistics University of Pittsburgh In her 1996 Error and the Growth of Experimental...
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U-Phil: Deconstructions [of J. Berger]: Irony & Bad Faith 3
Memory Lane: 2 years ago: My efficient Errorstat Blogpeople1 have put forward the following 3 reader-contributed interpretive efforts2 as a result of the “deconstruction” exercise from December 11,...
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Deconstructing Larry Wasserman
Larry Wasserman (“Normal Deviate”) has announced he will stop blogging (for now at least). That means we’re losing one of the wisest blog-voices on issues relevant to statistical foundations (among...
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More on deconstructing Larry Wasserman (Aris Spanos)
This follows up on yesterday’s deconstruction: Aris Spanos (2012)[i] – Comments on: L. Wasserman “Low Assumptions, High Dimensions” (2011)* I’m happy to play devil’s advocate in commenting on Larry’s...
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U-Phil (Phil 6334) How should “prior information” enter in statistical...
On weekends this spring (in connection with Phil 6334, but not limited to seminar participants) I will post relevant “comedy hours”, invites to analyze short papers or blogs (“U-Phils”, as in...
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3 YEARS AGO: (JANUARY 2012) MEMORY LANE
3 years ago… MONTHLY MEMORY LANE: 3 years ago: January 2012. I mark in red three posts that seem most apt for general background on key issues in this blog. January 2012 (1/3) Model Validation and the...
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