We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation

(stat.columbia.edu)

51 points | by Tomte 2 days ago

4 comments

  • addag 1 minute ago
    This technique is very useful to gain intuition for a given sample size. Just run a few simulations with uncorrelated data and then you can get a sense of how extreme the estimators can be.
  • wodenokoto 1 day ago
    An article named “This is how we do modern frequentist statistics” is an excerpt from a book called “Bayesian workflows”

    Where is the article explaining that?

    Anyway, great article, thanks for sharing.

  • SubiculumCode 1 hour ago
    Where did he get the attractivess distribution, from the paper??
    • Tomte 1 hour ago
      You were just one click away from finding out:

      "Figure 2. Using a sample of 2,972 respondents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, each of whom had been rated on a five-point scale of attractiveness […]"

  • j7ake 2 hours ago
    This should be automatic now in any statistical analysis given ubiquity of coding agents.