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It is well known that c_4 is the bias correction factor for the sample standard deviation and is used to construct control charts. However, why it's called c_4. In addition, who introduced c_4...
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In 2000, Ballico reported a paradoxical behavior of the expanded uncertainty (EU) estimated with the GUM’s WS-t approach in a real-world application (WS stands for Welch-Satterthwaite). According...
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In March 2019, more than 800 scientists and statisticians across the world have signed on to a manifesto calling “for the entire concept of statistical significance to be abandoned.” Also in March...
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The theory of confidence intervals (CIs) was developed by Neyman in 1930’s. It is the theoretical base of GUM’s uncertainty framework. However, the CI-based approach for uncertainty estimation...
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Due to growing concerns about the replication crisis in the scientific community in recent years, many scientists and statisticians have proposed abandoning the concept of statistical significance...
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MCMC sampling is often used to produce samples from Bayesian posterior distributions. However, the MCMC method in general associates with computational difficulty and lack of transparency....
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According to Fisher [1], “… probability and likelihood are quantities of an entirely different nature.” Edwards [2] stated, “… this [likelihood] function in no sense gives rise to a statistical...
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Statistics reform (or paradigm shift) seems to be in progress. The following excerpt from Statistics reform: practitioner's perspective briefly describes its background. In recent years, the...
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Assume that a measurement gives n observations y1, y2, ......yn. The data are drawn from a normal distribution: Y~N(μ,σ^2), and prior distribution is μ ̃~N(y_prior,σ_prior^2). If σ^2 is known, the...
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The debate on null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) and p-values has been going on for decades and is still going on. One side of the debate advocates abandoning NHST and p-values and...
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The Supplement 1 (S1) to the GUM (Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement) describes a general numerical approach, known as Monte Carlo method (MCM) for estimating measurement...
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The Bayesian theory of measurement uncertainty was first introduced by Weise and Woger in 1992. Since then, a large amount of papers on the Bayesian approach for estimating measurement...
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