Statistical Thinking News
May 2023
Recent Topics in datamethods.org
Recommended Statistical Methods Articles
These are primarily articles published in the past 120 days
April 2023
Response Heterogeneity by Darren Dahly
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Bust size and hitchhiking author earns five expressions of concern
Sample Size Needed for Prior Insensitivity by FE Harrell; An alternate approach to sample size calculations: solving for \(n\) such that posterior probabilities of efficacy from different priors are virtually the same
March 2023
Thinking About Statistical Modeling, Overfitting, and Generalization Error by Andrew Gelman
On the Limited Value of Randomization by Lars Pålsson Syll [Editor’s note: I disagree with most of the ideas in this post including those from famed statistician David Freedman, but I thought it’s worth reading]
Long COVID Comes Into the Light by Jeff Wise
Improving the Efficiency of Trials Via Linear Adjustment For a Prognostic Score - Bartlett
Minimal Detectable Change vs. MCID
PNAS Is Not a Good Journal, and the Decline Effect - Moin Syed
Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence by Jay Brophy [offers a nice Bayesian perspective]
Using AI To Make Teaching Easier & More Impactful by Ethan Mollick
Relevance of Prognostic Information for Clinical Trials - Siegfried, Senn, Hothorn
One Article That Won’t Be Making Any Top 50 Papers List
Everybody’s Back Yard - Dahly
The Problem of Old Evidence - Wagenmakers
