Bibliograph

Statistical inference as severe testing, how to get beyond the statistics wars, Deborah G. Mayo (Virginia Tech)

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Statistical inference as severe testing, how to get beyond the statistics wars, Deborah G. Mayo (Virginia Tech)

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Statistical inference as severe testing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1018457393

Responsibility statement

Deborah G. Mayo (Virginia Tech)

Sub title

how to get beyond the statistics wars

Summary

"Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This book pulls back the cover on disagreements between experts charged with restoring integrity to science. It denies two pervasive views of the role of probability in inference: to assign degrees of belief, and to control error rates in a long run. If statistical consumers are unaware of assumptions behind rival evidence reforms, they can't scrutinize the consequences that affect them (in personalized medicine, psychology, etc.). The book sets sail with a simple tool: if little has been done to rule out flaws in inferring a claim, then it has not passed a severe test. Many methods advocated by data experts do not stand up to severe scrutiny and are in tension with successful strategies for blocking or accounting for cherry picking and selective reporting. Through a series of excursions and exhibits, the philosophy and history of inductive inference come alive. Philosophical tools are put to work to solve problems about science and pseudoscience, induction and falsification. Views a contentious debate as a difference in goals to enable fair-minded engagement; Refocuses on the goal of learning from error to shed fresh light on statistical inference; Offers a bridge between long-standing philosophical problems and concerns of practicing scientists and statisticians" -- From the publisher. --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preface -- How to tell what's true about statistical inference -- Taboos of induction and falsification -- Statistical tests and scientific inference -- Objectivity and auditing -- Power and severity -- (Probabilist) foundations lost, (probative) foundations found

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