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Statistics Colloquium
February 10 Friday, 11 a.m.
Alavi Commons Room, 6625 Everett Tower
Joshua Naranjo
Department of Statistics
Western Michigan University
Abstract:
We look at several well-known cases of scientific findings that were wrong:
the MMR vaccine and autism, the safety of Vioxx pain medication,
effects of estrogen supplementation, and others. Then we take a look
at the common reasons for false research findings. Finally, we discuss a
framework proposed by Ioannidis (2005) for
modeling the probability that a research finding is true.
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All statistics graduate students are expected to attend.
Past colloquiums