inductive inference

Truth, Knowledge, P-Values, Bayes, & Inductive Inference

Edsel A. Peña, iProfessor in the Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina

Mar 14, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L4 R4102

statistics Bayesian computational statistics inductive inference

The talk will concern the role of statistical thinking in the search for Truth. This will bring us to a discussion of P-values, which has been, and still is, a central concept in Statistics and is a critical and highly controversial tool of scientific research. Recently it has elicited much, sometimes heated, debates and discussions. The American Statistical Association (ASA) was even compelled to release an official statement in early March 2016 regarding this issue, and a psychology journal gone to the extreme of banning the use of P-values in articles appearing in its journal!