Richard Morey

The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties Videos & Slides from Sessions 1 & 2

Below are the videos and slides from the 6 talks from Session 1 and Session 2 of our workshop The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties held on September 22 & 23, 2022. Session 1 speakers were: Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech), Richard Morey (Cardiff University), Stephen Senn (Edinburgh, Scotland). Session 2 speakers were:  Daniël Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology),  Christian Hennig (University of Bologna), Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University).  Abstracts can be found here and the schedule here. Some participant related publications are on this page.

The final 2 sessions of our online workshop (Sessions 3 and 4) will be held on Thursdays, Dec 1 and Dec 8, 2022 from 1500-1815 (London time) and 10am-1:15pm (New York City time).

SESSION 1

Brief Intro to Session 1 by David Hand (Imperial College)

Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech):
The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties

Richard Morey (Cardiff University)
Bayes factors, p values, and the replication crisis

Slide show is posted on his webpage here.

Stephen Senn (Edinburgh)
The replication crisis: are P-values the problem and are Bayes factors the solution?

Session 1 Discussion

SESSION 2

[Brief Intro to Session 2 by Stephen Senn (Edinburgh)]
Daniël Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology)
The role of background assumptions in severity appraisal 

Christian Hennig (University of Bologna)
On the interpretation of the mathematical characteristics of statistical tests

Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University)
The two statistical cornerstones of replicability: addressing selective inference and irrelevant variability

Session 2 Discussion

September 24: Bayes factors from all sides: who’s worried, who’s not, and why (R. Morey)

The second meeting of our New Phil Stat Forum*:

The Statistics Wars
and Their Casualties

September 24: 15:00 – 16:45  (London time)
10-11:45 am (New York, EDT) 

“Bayes Factors from all sides:
who’s worried, who’s not, and why”

Richard Morey

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