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Agnostic (freq, bayes, likelihood, fiducial) statistician | Posts about statistics in medicine at https://t.co/2FtxYFZNp3 | | #StatsTwitter • #EpiTwitter • #RStats
Dec 13, 2022 26 tweets 9 min read
This paper by @philipbstark is a must read for anyone who builds and fits statistical models as it shows how most stat models in several disciplines are insanely disconnected from reality 1/n Image There are so many excellent points and examples in the paper so the rest of this thread will be screenshots with some minor annotations, first I focus on general points in the paper and then discuss the model examples which start around tweet #20 2/n Image
May 8, 2022 15 tweets 4 min read
A quick thread on how the ASA statement on P-values from 2020 and the Nature Paper has had some "interesting outcomes” on interpreting results 1/8 As @jd_wilko has pointed out many times here, and from what I’ve seen myself, many researchers point to these papers about abandoning traditional NHST to argue the importance of the point estimate from a study and present it as being the true effect 2/8