Timeline for Big ideas and big ways of thinking in statistics?
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 19:35 | comment | added | Spencer Bagley | @StéphaneLaurent I believe it is mostly first year students, and a wide variety of majors. | |
| Jul 13, 2018 at 8:15 | comment | added | Stéphane Laurent | A course for which kind of students? Students in mathematics? Students in psychology?... First year, second year,....? | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | Craig Feinstein | Spencer, as for statistics being the answer to Hume's Problem of Induction, we cannot know if nature is uniform, but if it is, then using statistics is the best strategy to make predictions about nature. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 1:47 | comment | added | Christian Remling | This seems especially important because the usual terminology attempts to obfuscate matters. For example, if a test rejects a hypothesis at significance $5\%$, then that does of course not mean that this decision was correct with probability $0.95$. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 1:36 | comment | added | Christian Remling | In my opinion, the most important thing to realize is that when you'd be interested in $P(A|B)$, statistics (disappointingly, but also inevitably) only gives you $P(B|A)$. Typical example: A: Madame X is not a psychic; B: at most $k$ out of $n$ coin flips were predicted correctly | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 19:23 | answer | added | Zach Teitler | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 18:53 | answer | added | R Hahn | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | David G. Stork | Bayes versus frequentist. (And Bayes is the proper way... when conditions are met.) | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | If you don't get enough useful answers/suggestions here, perhaps try stats.stackexchange.com | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | Craig Feinstein | see my question and also my answer: philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/39545/… | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 16:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 5, 2018 at 16:46 | comment | added | Spencer Bagley | @CraigFeinstein I'm intrigued! Say more! | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 16:28 | comment | added | Craig Feinstein | I like to approach statistics as the answer to Hume's Problem of Induction. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 16:08 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 5, 2018 at 16:06 | history | asked | Spencer Bagley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |