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It looks like the corresponding author of this article (Didier Raoult) is also the Editor-in-Chief of the the journal (Clinical Microbiology and Infection), so it seems entirely po…

The single paragraph in the postscript of this paper (part 6) is actually really important. It's very common for people who are using statistical testing in applied settings to ent…

"Statistical modeling is a lot like engineering." I can certainly see why this is a good comparison, because it's true that both engineering methods and statistical methods rely on…

Point #7 is just referring to the magnitudes (or absolute values) of the coefficients. You can still determine which features are relatively important using the coefficient p-value…

This consensus algorithm looks pretty good, but it seems it could get into trouble in cases where the distribution of outcomes is multimodal. One thing that is mentioned is that us…

> Is the cautious approach then to treat a p-value in the absence of priors on the same level as a p-value in presence of unfavorable priors? In the presence of a poor prior the Ba…

This is a nice little paper that provides a great introduction to machine teaching. I think the Socratic dialogue format was an excellent choice as it makes it very easy to follow.…

You're absolutely correct that Bayesian approaches are not magical and do not suddenly supply you with vastly more information than frequentist approaches (particularly when you ha…

It's actually entirely possible to do some "checking of your answer" for p-values, as well. As you mentioned, for practical math, you can often validate your answer against the ini…

The article is certainly correct that p-values and confidence intervals (or confidence sets, in multi-dimensional contexts) are widely misunderstood, not just in psychology or othe…