When discussing hypothesis testing, I have, from time to time, used the example of the criminal justice system to act as a metaphor for the logic and philosophical issues involved. It remains a good way to pose the logical dilemmas and the types of errors involved and to also discuss the idea of a system [...]
Let’s review the difference between the two types of studies and then consider the analytic situation. The distinction between Analytic and Enumerative studies was first proposed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming in his book, “Some Theory of Sampling”, originally published in 1950. In the enumerative study we are simply trying to describe an available entity. [...]
Anyone who knows me has heard my rant about the lack of evidence that Cholesterol at moderate levels has any relationship with heart disease. Now it seems that some vindication may be in the wind. The New York Times’s Alex Berenson reported that two widely read studies of cholesterol lowering drugs were not able to [...]
