In this first episode of Season 8, Greg and Patrick decide it is deeply unfair that the podcast has not grown popular enough for them to buy their own Quantitude jet. They thus decide to make it a true crime podcast and dedicate the episode to revisiting the crimes and punishment of Null Hypothesis Significance […]
S8E01 The True Crimes of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk about confidence intervals: symmetric and asymmetric, asymptotic and bootstrapped, how to interpret them, and how not to interpret them. Along they way they also discuss tire pressure gauge mysteries, conference travel reimbursement, phases of the moon, gyroscopic effects, baseball walk-of-shame, why people hate us, settling out of
S5E13 The Confidence Interval’s Tale Read More »
In this week’s episode, the first for Season 5, Greg and Patrick explore the very cool world of receiver operating characteristic, or ROC, curves: what they are, how they work, and why we can give partial thanks to Winston Churchill for their existence. Along the way they also discuss advent calendars, lasagna for 8, honey
S5E01 Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves Read More »
In this week’s episode Patrick and Greg talk about an alternative to familywise Type I error control, the false discovery rate, and how it offers increased power in that middle ground between no error control and the severe control of Bonferroni. Along the way they also mention: Leif Ericson, discovering Columbus, The Flintstones, brontosauri, dying
S4E16 Discovering the False Discovery Rate Read More »
