That day in 1977 when Jerzy Neyman committed the methodological attribution fallacy. (Before going on, please read the last sentence of the P.P.S. below to put this post in context.) Blake McShane points us to this 1977 article, “Frequentist Probability and Frequentist Statistics,” by Jerzy Neyman, the statistician who made fundamental contributions …
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Reflections on the recent election These are my quick thoughts. I’m sure I’ve missed a lot, so feel free to add your perspectives in comments. 1. The outcome In 2016, Hillary Clinton narrowly won the popular vote and lost in the electoral college. In 2020 …
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Trigonometric interpolation https://www.johndcook.com/blog..../2024/11/05/trigonom

Maybe Copernicus isn’t coming https://www.johndcook.com/blog..../2024/11/05/copernic