Yes, please
Andrew Gelman says,
Instead of “confidence interval,” let’s say “uncertainty interval”
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Quote of the Date
Really, there is no point in extracting a sentence here and there, go read the whole thing:
“Why I don’t like Bayesian Statistics”
- Andrew Gelman
Oh, alright, here’s one:
I can’t keep track of what all those Bayesians are doing nowadays–unfortunately, all sorts of people are being seduced by the promises of automatic inference through the “magic of MCMC”–but I wish they would all just stop already and get back to doing statistics the way it should be done, back in the old days when a p-value stood for something, when a confidence interval meant what it said, and statistical bias was something to eliminate, not something to embrace.
[Quote] Changing my mind (again)
From IMS Bulletin Vol. 36(7) p.10, TerenceÁ€™s Stuff: Changing my mind (again)
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[Quote] Model Skeptics
From IMS Bulletin Vol. 36(3), p.11, Terence’s Stuff: Model skeptics
[Once I quoted an article by Prof. Terry Speed in IMS Bulletin: Data-Doctors. Reading his columns in the IMS Bulletin provides me an opportunity to reflect who I am as a statistician and some guidance for treating data. Although his ideas were not from astronomy or astronomical data analysis, I often find his thoughts and words can be shared with astronomers.]
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