DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Statistics Colloquium
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
The Department of Statistics Cordially invites you to a Colloquium
Jim Berger
The Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University
Reproducibility of Science: P-values and Multiplicity
ABSTRACT
Published scientific findings seem to be increasingly failing efforts at replication. This is undoubtedly due to many sources, including specifics of individual scientific cultures and overall scientific biases such as publication bias. While these will be briefly discussed, the talk will focus on the all-too-common misuse of p-values and failure to properly account for multiplicities as two likely major contributors to the lack of reproducibility. The Bayesian approaches to both testing and multiplicity will be highlighted as possible general solutions to the problem.
DATE: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Philip E. Austin Building – Room 105
Coffee will be served at 3:30 in AUST 326
For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu