{"id":1900,"date":"2013-01-21T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:48:09","slug":"a-statisticians-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/01\/21\/a-statisticians-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Statistician\u2019s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William M. Briggs<a href='http:\/\/wmbriggs.com\/blog\/?p=7114&#038;cpage=1#comment-84487'>laments<\/a> the abuse of statistics in many of its applications. But I really think that he undermines his case when he attacks &#8220;classical statistics&#8221; itself rather than its abuse. Such abuse is definitely all too common in many fields but it is just not true that &#8220;*Every* analysis begins by assuming more than is warranted&#8221;(emphasis added). And on the other side of the argument the &#8220;superior&#8221; alternate (Bayesian\/predictive) methods he advocates are just as susceptible to abuse as the old &#8211; perhaps more so as they are arguably harder to explain than the classical theory and so people are more inclined to take the word of an &#8220;expert&#8221; on faith rather than really understand the assumptions that it comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William M. Briggslaments the abuse of statistics in many of its applications. But I really think that he undermines his case when he attacks &#8220;classical statistics&#8221; itself rather than its abuse. Such abuse is definitely all too common in many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/01\/21\/a-statisticians-lament\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}