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JELS 10:3 24 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
As a co-editor I note with pride that JELS 10:3 maintains (for more than one decade) JELS' perfect record of on-time publication and includes a wonderful collection of diverse and interesting papers. ...
History of the p < 0.05 Significance Level 14 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Prompted by my prior post discussing statistical significance levels, my Cornell colleague Ted Eisenberg passed along this 1982 paper in the American Psychologist by Michael Cowles (York) and Caroline...
Statistical Significance Thresholds 12 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Rafael Irizarry makes an interesting contribution to a discussion about whether the standard statistical significance threshold (p "The gist of my thought is that, for some scientific fields, the pes...
OLS Regression Assumptions 7 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
From the archives comes a helpful reminder from Osborne & Waters about key regression assumptions that require examination (here). Gelman provides a "friendly" amendment and a (related) list of his ow...
More on Statistical Power 2 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
To prolong my recent mini-obsession on statistical power issues, I thought some readers might find a three-part statistical power "webinar" helpful. Hosted by UCLA's outstanding Institute for Digital ...
Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property 27 Jul 2013 | 01:45 am
David Schwartz (Chi-Kent) asked that I pass along on the inaugural "Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property," co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual...
Statistical Power and Errors 24 Jul 2013 | 07:40 pm
A series of posts (one dating back to 2004) by Andrew Gelman (Columbia--Statistics), including links to helpful papers, provides a nice overview of the array of potential errors flowing from under-pow...
SCOTUS & Judicial Decisionmaking Data Sets 17 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
Paul Collins, Jr. (Univ. N. Texas--Poli Sci) notes the public availability of the U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Database that he and co-author Lori Ringhand used in their recent book, Supre...
Mechanical Turk & Sample Validity Problems 12 Jul 2013 | 12:28 am
Many folks, especially those who conduct psychology experiments, will want to consider carefully Dan Kahan's (Yale) recent post about problems with relying on Mechanical Turk for data. More specifical...
Stanford Law Review & ELS 5 Jul 2013 | 06:52 pm
I am delighted to note that Stanford Law Review's current issue (65:6) focuses exclusively on empirical legal studies. The issue features essays from six Stanford faculty members who used papers prese...
