Stat Chat for Tuesday 23 March 2010
Location: Room 205, Olin-Rice Science Center, Macalester College
Agenda
- 6:00 - 6:30, Dinner
- 6:30 - 6:40, Getting ready for finals --- a chance to share
questions. Bring an exam question or two that you love (or hate)
and share it with the group.
- 6:40 - 7:20, Journal club. Ana Sotos et al.,
The
Transitivity Misconception of Pearson's Correlation
Coefficient Statistics Education Research Journal,
8(2):33-55. Bob delMas will moderate the discussion.
The journal archive itself, with many interesting papers, is online here.
- 7:20 - 8:00, Main Event: Paul Alper, Hypothesis
Testing: What's the (Other) Alternative
Drawing on a concrete example from the paper by Michael Lavine, What is
Bayesian Statistics and Why Everything Else is Wrong, Paul will
review the areas of conflict and alignment between the Bayesian and
hypothesis-testing paradigms.
PLEASE RSVP to Danny Kaplan so that we can plan sensibly for dinner. As always, last-minute deciders and guests are welcome.