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Daniele Fanelli: "How an Information Metric Could Bring Truce to the Statistics Wars"

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PhilStat Forum monthly online meeting (15:00-15:45 (London time) and 10:00-11:45 (New York City time). Daniele Fanelli: "How an Information Metric Could Bring Truce to the Statistics Wars."

Event Date:
4/22/2021

Event Time:
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Eastern

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229 Major Williams Hall (0126)
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061

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Abstract: Both sides of debates on P-values, reproducibility, and other meta-scientific issues are entrenched in traditional methodological assumptions. For example, they often implicitly endorse rigid dichotomies (e.g. published findings are either “true” or “false”, replications either “succeed” or “fail”, research practices are either “good” or “bad”), or make simplifying and monistic assumptions about the nature of research (e.g. publication bias is generally a problem, all results should replicate, data should always be shared). Thinking about knowledge in terms of information may clear a common ground on which all sides can meet, leaving behind partisan methodological assumptions. In particular, I will argue that a metric of knowledge that I call “K” helps examine research problems in a more genuinely "meta-" scientific way, giving rise to a methodology that is distinct, more general, and yet compatible with multiple statistical philosophies and methodological traditions. This talk will present statistical, philosophical and scientific arguments in favour of K, and will give a few examples of its practical applications.
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