Celebrating science on google.co.uk

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Celebrating science on google.co.uk

Today our #GoogleDoodle  celebrates the 100th birthday of Jonas Salk, the American scientist who developed the first successful polio vaccine.

You can read more about the life and work of the scientist in this article from the Mirror newspaper → http://goo.gl/lffqpu

Discover #Doodles  from around the world in our official gallery → http://goo.gl/IAfzE0

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Interesting approach that we should be using re-sampling simulation rather than statistical tests to calculate...

Interesting approach  that we should be using re-sampling simulation rather than statistical tests to calculate significance as it is much easier to understand.  Sounds reasonable to me, but I suspect much harder to convince a reviewer about.


A more thorough examination of this can be found in this article: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dnw46eC-0o&feature=share

This seems to be a very reasonable approach to the Bayesian vs Frequentist debate that I agree with.

This seems to be a very reasonable approach to the Bayesian vs Frequentist debate that I agree with.
http://simplystatistics.org/2014/10/13/as-an-applied-statistician-i-find-the-frequentists-versus-bayesians-debate-completely-inconsequential/

This paper has been a long time coming, but I am pleased that it is finally done.

This paper has been a long time coming, but I am pleased that it is finally done.  It was based on work performed by a PhD student I helped supervise who successfully finished in 2008.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/880/abstract

Another article is out. I had a minor role in this one.

Another article is out.  I had a minor role in this one.

This is published in eLife which is a relatively new open access journal.  The big claim is that they make the process as quick as possible, with an initial decision within three days.  eLife is funded by three major research foundations: the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, and the Wellcome Trust.  Currently there is no publishing charges.
http://elifesciences.org/content/early/2014/09/30/eLife.02935