Statistical Nihilism

Postscript to “Statistics is not shit”

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Statistics is not shit: An open letter to the psycholinguistics community

tl;dr: Please don’t insult an entire community via bathroom analogies, then claim to speak for what they want. The words and attitudes of senior scientists have profound…
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A New Chapter (Title): Statistical Nihilism

This past year has been rather interesting. Beyond all the global events that will undoubtedly be interesting to tell future generations about, there were some rather…
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Marr’s Levels

I’m really tired of seeing “Marr’s three levels” referenced.
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Assumptions about (statistical) assumptions

Parametric statistics are not appropriate for mutual information because the values are non-normally distributed.
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Likelihood vs. Posterior

You need to remember that “likelihood” is a technical term. The likelihood of \(H\), \(Pr(O\|H)\), and the posterior probability of \(H\), \(Pr(H\|O)\), are different…
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User and Project Pages on GitHub

If you want to use both User and Project pages on GitHub Pages, then you need to create the User page first. Project pages created before the User page will no longer be…
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Embedding R-help with knitr

R
knitr
markdown
RMarkdown
RStudio, R Markdown/knitr and Git are great for teaching a statistics class.1 You can encourage good documentation (of both the development and the final result), an…
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New Blog

I’ve decided to move to running my own blog as part of my webpage on Bitbucket. With DVCS and Jekyll, I can write and edit posts on the go and regenerate the static site…
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Speed up R (on Linux)

compile
Linux
R
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Totally Open Science: A Proposal for a New Type of Preregistration

automation
documentation
git
hg
open science
preregistration
publishing
reuse
statistics
version control
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Backups: Your Relationship to Your Data and Your IT Guy

backups
data
recovery
restore
tech guys
version control
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Shout out

open science
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Searching for NULL: Making hg and git recognize text as text.

automation
bash
code
git
hg
latex
version control
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Diffs for LaTeX in Version Control

automation
bash
code
latex
version control
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Pushing all bookmarks in mercurial

automation
bash
hg
version control
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Best Software Practices for Science / Scientific Computing

automation
code
documentation
reuse
software
version control
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rEFIt, broken GRUB repair following updates

boot
EFI
GRUB
install
Linux
OS X
rEFIt
restore
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Compiling libeep on OS X (for importing data into EEGLAB)

compile
EEGLAB
EEProbe
libeep
OS X
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sudo fu

bash
Debian
Linux
Linux Mint
su
sudo
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Searching for R

Google
R
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Documenting progress

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