Remember when we talked about the problem with the “scientist-as-hero” narrative? Here’s another example. Celebrity doctor / USC professor David Agus had a side gig putting his name on plagiarized books that he never read. I get that some people … Continue reading →

Nigel Smeeton writes: I see from the old online post, “The greatest works of statistics never published,” that there is interest in EJG Pitman’s Notes on Non-Parametric Statistical Inference. Working from a poor online scan of the Notes, EJG Pitman’s … Continue reading →

Greg Mayer writes: Have you seen this paper by Frank Corotto, recently posted to a university depository? It advocates a way of doing box plots using “comparative confidence intervals” based on Tukey’s HSD in lieu of traditional error bars. I … Continue reading →