Monday, February 22, 2021

Concerns of Statisticians

it’s kind of embarrassing that statisticians are always getting on everybody else’s case for not using random sampling, controlled experimentation, and reliable and valid measurements—but then we don’t use these tools in our own decision making.   -- Andrew Gelman      
...from this post on the use of statistics in physics, medicine, social science… and, statistics:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/02/21/statisticians-dont-use-statistical-evidence-to-decide-what-statistical-methods-to-use-also-the-way-of-the-physicist/




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