The Statistics of Throat Cancer Risk Factors

Image by Nikita2706 in Wikipedia Pretty much everybody knows that smoking and alcohol increases risk of throat cancer. Some even realize th...

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Statistical Reform.....or Safe-harbor Treadmill Science?

W e have recently commented on the flap in statistics circles about the misleading use of significance test results ( p -values) rather than...

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The statistics of Promissory Science. Part II: The problem may be much deeper than acknowledged

Y esterday , I discussed current issues related to statistical studies of things like genetic or other disease risk factors.  Recent discuss...

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The statistics of Promissory Science. Part I: Making non-sense with statistical methods

S tatistics is a form of mathematics, a way devised by humans for representing abstract relationships. Mathematics comprises  axiomatic sys...

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Breast cancer, and probablities, in the news (again)

Angelina Jolie's New York Times editorial on her decision to have bilateral mastectomies when she tested positive for BRCA1 mutations a...

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Let's Abandon Significance Tests

By his own admission, this is not only the first blog post Jim Wood has ever written, it's also the first one he's ever read. We...

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