Error Statistics Philosophy

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I will use this banner for posts that seem relevant for our Synthese Topical Collection on Severity and learning from error (CFP here). Many of the issues in today’s meta-methodology interconnect with philosophy of...

I am pleased to share that Professor Peter McCullagh has received the 2026 Sir David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, given by the American Statistical Association (ASA).  Below is the announcement from the JUNE 1, 2026 issue of AMSTAT NEWS...

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Can You Make Me More Capable? Of Art, Astrophysics and AI

Since the pandemic, I have returned to an old passion of mine–drawing, especially life drawing. I have always loved it. One year I even won my high school’s art award. Over the years, academic work had crowded it out, except for the occasional conference po...

15 July 1924-18 January 2022

Last week, July 15, was Sir David Cox’s birthday. [1]  It was 23 years ago that I first got to know Cox after I (boldly) invited him to be in a session I was organizing on philosophy of statistics for  the Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium held in May 19–22, 2004; Rice University, Texas. I invited him by email,...