Fixing Science: The Replicability Crisis
given to the Statistical Society of New South Wales, Australia, 1 May 2013
given to the Statistical Society of New South Wales, Australia, 1 May 2013
Hawking’s century of complexity will call upon all the tools of twentieth century problem solving along with a few more. Statistics and data visualization are going to be at the forefront of the data-driven revolution in complex systems.SciAm Blogs.
It’s not really about chocolate, it’s about statistics.
Probability inversion is one of the nastiest mistakes one can do handling the results of a statistical analysis, invalidating to the roots the interpretation of the data to the point that the whole work effectively becomes useless. Unfortunately, it is a very common entertainment for journalists reporting scientific results, and oftentimes scientists themselves fall in the trap.
Tommaso Dorigo. Science 2.0.
September 12th 2012: Registration is open, costs: 40Euro, registration closes Sept. 9th 2012.
See also workshop on OA Statistics, that will be part of the program Vienna Open Access Days, Sept. 27th 2012.