The Statistics Debate

October 15, 2020 Noon - 2 pm ET
Hosted & Sponsored by the National Institutes of Statistical Sciences (NISS)
(Online webinar debate, free but must register to attend on website above)
 
Debate Host: 
Dan Jeske (University of California, Riverside)
 
Participants:
Jim Berger (Duke University)
Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech)
David Trafimow (New Mexico State University)
 
Where do you stand?
·      Given the issues surrounding the misuses and abuse of p-values, do you think p-values should be used?
·      Do you think the use of estimation and confidence intervals eliminates the need for hypothesis tests?
·      Bayes Factors - are you for or against?
·      How should we address the reproducibility crisis?
 

If you are intrigued by these questions and have an interest in how these questions might be answered – one way of the other – then this is the event for you!

Want to get a sense of the thinking behind the practicality (or not) of various statistical approaches?  Interested in hearing both sides of the story – during the same session!?

This event will be held in a debate type of format. The participants will be given selected questions ahead of time, so they have a chance to think about their responses, but this is intended to be much less of a presentation and more of a give and take between the debaters.
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