Meeting 3 (June 4)
III. (June 4) Deeper Concepts: Confidence Intervals and Tests: Higgs’ Discovery:
Reading:
SIST: Excursion 3 Tour III
(Strongly) Recommended (as much as interests you) Excursion 3 Tour II:It’s the Methods Stupid: Howlers and Chestnuts of Tests
General Info Items:
at-home seminar room w/ blackboard

(Thebes) conference room for seminar

amp & mike

on the desk outside conference room
Meeting 2 (May 28)

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II. (May 28): N-P and Fisherian Tests, Severe Testing: How to avoid fallacies of tests
Reading:
SIST: Excursion 3 Tour I (focus on pages up to p. 152): 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Recommended: Excursion 2 Tour II pp. 92-100 (Sections 2.4-2.7)
Optional: I will (try to) answer questions on demarcation of science, induction, falsification, Popper from Excursion 2 Tour II (Section 2.3)
(Use comments on this blog for queries we don’t get to in the seminar. The first comment you write is sent to moderation to be approved; after that it’s automatic.)
Handout: Areas Under the Standard Normal Curve
5 minute refresher on means, variance, standard deviations, and the Normal distribution, standard normal
Meeting 1 (May 21)

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I. (May 21) Introduction: Controversies in Phil Stat
Reading:
SIST*: Preface, Excursion 1
Preface
Excursion 1 Tour I
Excursion 1 Tour II
*Note: The above are from proofs, participants should have a copy of the book
Notes:
NOTES on Excursion 1
Postcard
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LSE Research Seminar PH500 21 May – 25 June, 2020

Mayo
General Schedule PDF
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Topic: Current Controversies in Phil Stat (LSE, Remote 15:00 – 17:00; Thursdays 21 May-18 June)
Main Text SIST: Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars CUP, 2018)*:
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