数学系学术报告:WHY P-VALUES ARE BANNED and HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT THEM?
发布时间: 2016-06-12 05:03:57 浏览次数: 供稿:数学系
演讲人:Tonghui Wang
讲座时间:2016-06-14 10:00:00
讲座地点:信息楼343研讨室
讲座内容

In view of the FINAL (official and universal) BAN on the use of P-values in Statistical Testing, this talk is devoted to elaborating on this crisis in Statistics, for both TEACHERS and RESEARCHERS in Statistics. It is an urgent need for statisticians to be aware of what to do next? The topics to be included in this talk are

1. In the news

2. What is a p-value, and where we used it?

3. Fisher "significance tests" and Neyman-Pearson "tests of acceptance",

4. Why P-values are banned?

5. Are there valid alternatives to replace P-values? (i) Bayesian

Statistics (ii) Information Theoretic Statistics.

附件:主讲人简历

演讲人简介
Tonghui Wang,Department of Mathematical Sciences,New Mexico State University, Las Cruces