Statistical Inference as Severe Testing
by Deborah G. Mayo · first published 2018
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Might I mention my book (Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Science Wars (Mayo CUP)). https://twitter.com/learnfromerror/status/107197020637171302... I did not know of Hacker news but was trying to trace why my blog errorstatstics.com got…
on “Response to the ASA’s Statement on p-Values” ↗A book by Deborah Mayo "Statistical Inference as Severe Testing" might fit.
on “Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)” ↗Thanks for the Mayo recommendation. I am currently going through her Statistical Inference as Severe Testing, and find it very tiring. So far very little is about actual statistics and the meat of disputes, but rather about meta questions and the he-said, she-said of those disputes. Maybe the prior book Error…
on ““Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”” ↗…to distinguish corroboration from induction, as the latter was being used at the time. The same impetus led Neyman to speak of inference as an act (of inferring). I explain all this in my recent book, Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (Mayo 2018,CUP. As I say there, “In my view an account of what is warranted and unwarranted to infer – a normative epistemology – is not a matter of using probability…
on “Response to the ASA’s Statement on p-Values” ↗