Statistics Lexicon... of a sort

 An old, but still handy, statistical primer I just ran across, courtesy of Gelman:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/

Election Polling... Lotsa Questions

 Kaiser Fung overviewing Andrew Gelman on the problems of pre-election polls:

https://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2022/02/reading-gelmans-take-on-election-polling.html

But Tell Us How You Really Feel, Andrew (...about the Hoover Institution) ;)

Hmmm.... am thinking that maybe members of the Hoover Institution truly qualify as being institutionalized:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/01/29/fools-at-the-hoover-institution-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

The "Difficulty of Statistics"

 Deborah Mayo on the continuing controversy over P-values and significance testing:

https://errorstatistics.com/2022/01/09/the-asa-controversy-on-p-values-as-an-illustration-of-the-difficulty-of-statistics/

The P-Values Wars Continue

 From a behavioral scientist:

https://towardsdatascience.com/ditch-p-values-use-bootstrap-confidence-intervals-instead-bba56322b522

Statistical Significance and "Oomph"

 What models and data analysis can miss:

https://mindmatters.ai/2021/12/the-cult-of-statistical-significance-and-the-neglect-of-oomph/

BBC on Covid Immunity...

 Natural immunity vs. vaccination:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b98hzl

John Cook on "Fraud, Sloppiness, and Statistics"

 A LOT of scientific papers later appear to be wrong. John Cook attempts to explain the likely reasons; longer than his typical posts, but still succinct:

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/12/11/fraud-sloppiness-and-statistics/

The Quality of Big Data

 Bigger not always better...:

https://www.statschat.org.nz/2021/12/10/making-it-up-in-volume/

Andrew Gelman Spends Another Day at the Sausage Factory

Regression discontinuity, oink, oink:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/11/21/just-another-day-at-the-sausage-factory-its-just-funny-how-regression-discontinuity-analyses-routinely-produce-these-ridiculous-graphs-and-the-authors-and-journals-dont-even-seen-to-notice/ 

Covid and Bad Math?...

 It's complicated...:

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/11/09/bad-math-covid-treatment-paper-by-pierre-kory-retracted-for-flawed-results/

Uncertainty Rules...

 Siobhan Roberts on epidemiology, uncertainty, and covid:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/15/1037195/engineering-epidemiology-pandemic-problem-solving/

Confusing Covid Claims/Hospitalizations....

 Jordan Ellenberg points to this posting for those confused by recent covid statistics/claims:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-efficacy-vs-severe-disease-be-strong-when-60-of-hospitalized-are-vaccinated

...and Ellenberg himself is in Washington Post today on same topic:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/31/covid-israel-hospitalization-rates-simpsons-paradox/

Compilation of Statistics News

New issue/compilation of "Statistical Thinking News" via Frank Harrell out:

https://paper.li/stn

 

To Retract Or Not To Retract (...is that the question)

 An example of Journal 'expression of concern' vs. retraction, via Retraction Watch:

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/23/readers-puzzle-over-marketing-journals-failures-to-retract/

Null Hypothesis Testing... Thumbs Down

 A little introduction to the history and basics of significance testing in "squishy" psychology:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statistical-significance-p-value-null-hypothesis-origins

Bayesianism and Statistics Curricula

 Some basics:

https://www.cambridgemaths.org/blogs/binomials-and-the-basics-of-bayesianism/

Math Illiteracy Is Long-running

 How long (if ever) before education tackles the math innumeracy of the populace... and what will be the eventual consequences of not doing so (latest from Keith Devlin)?

https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/when-the-media-get-the-math-wrong-badly-wrong

"Real-world" Covid Stats

The ongoing problems of 'real-world' stats and Covid math: 

https://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2021/07/funny-math-out-of-la.html

Pubpeer to the Rescue...

 The power of post-publication peer review:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/25/this-awesome-pubpeer-thread-is-about-80-times-better-than-the-original-paper/