Today’s hike was a stroll around the island of Suomanlinna, a short ferry ride from Helsinki. This was an excellent recommendation from @pmgbarnham.bsky.social #hiking #Finland

TBF, he is swamping the drain.

Placebo beer?

Having got back from my walk in the Ardennes I have decided to stroll around the lovely city of Luxembourg.

Today I hiked from Wilwerwiltz to Kautenbach via Pintsch, Lellingen and the Shuuterberg Castle. A three churches one castle walk. ##hiking #Luxembourg

My current top 5 statistical hates Responder dichotomies Estimands Doubly robust methods Real world data hype Flexible design hype

This afternoon I went up Wester and Easter Craiglockhart and back along the canal. #hiking #Edinburgh

Today’s hike was from Dolphinton to West Linton via White Hill. #hiking #Pentlands.

“You will find that most lectures given by statisticians are subject to the law of large numbness.” Sayings of Confuseus

Unpopular opinion. The best Eurovision song was sung in French as the Luxembourg entry by a Greek woman living in Germany but didn’t win.

Can an approach that gets designed experiments wrong be essential for analysing “real world data”? Some think this but IMO they are indulging a propensity for nonsense.

Today we did a circular hike from Ullapool taking in Glastullich. #hiking #Coigach #RossandCromarty #Scotland

Today we walked from Kylesku House to the very fine waterfall on the Allt Chrànaidh and back. #hiking #Assynt #Sutherland #Scotland

Old excuse brought up to date. “It wasn’t me. A big AI LLM did it and ran away.”

Today the weather was windy with drizzle so we just walked down to the Kylesku bridge and back. #hiking #Scotland #Assynt #Sutherland

I'm running a promotion on Leanpub right now. Get Human Software for just $1 or for free with a Leanpub membership leanpub.com/humansoftware #booksky #writingcommunity

More pictures from our traverse of Quinag en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinag yesterday #hiking #Sutherland #Scotland

Today we did the traverse of Quinag, which involved climbing six or seven summits including Spidean Choinich (mossy peak), Sail Ghorm (blue heel) and the highest point Sail Gharbh (rough heel). #hiking #Assynt #Scotland

We have arrived in Kylesku. #Assynt #Scotland

My daughter Helen Senn is a conservation biologist but as Helen Watson she is a travel writer. This podcast www.seektravelride.com/podcast-ep-1... hosted by Bella of Seek Travel Ride discusses her bicycle journey along The Silk Road and the book she wrote about it www.helenwatsonwriting.com

Well done the Jambos! I am not a Hearts supporter but anybody but The Old Firm. Long may it continue. If #Hearts can win the Scottish Premiership I might even learn to sing The Gorgie Road.

Today’s walk was a clockwise circular from Upton House near Edgehill, site of the first battle of the Civil War #hiking #Cotswolds #Warwickshire

Should be good. It seems that July will be randomisation month this year. rss.org.uk/training-eve... 100 years ago Fisher wrote this: repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/id/eprint/20...

A lovely stroll in Hyde Park this morning during which I observed this waterfowl, no doubt hoping to attract funding from the Ministry for Silly Ducks.

‘Do not be surprised if statisticians obsess about sample size determination for as regards its importance “they know it and they know that very powerfully”’ Sayings of Confuseus

Just learned that Oscar Sheynin died a couple of years ago. I always enjoyed his pieces on the history of statistics. As an associate editor for Biometrika in the min 1990s I had no hesitation in recommending this academic.oup.com/biomet/artic... coauthored with Pfanzagl for publication.

A new version (5.0-1) of the metafor package has been released on CRAN. It includes some smaller updates, including more ways to visualize prediction intervals / distributions. Further details here: www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/new... #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

Today I led the walk for the All Year Ramblers that I recced on Tuesday. We started in Amulree and finished at Newton Bridge.

Now, now. No that’s not my age and we’ll have no rhyming slang here. I am down in London for the Fisher Memorial Lecture and just enjoying the sunshine, sunshine,

Today’s hike was a recce for one I have to lead for the Edinburgh All Year Ramblers. The walk was from Amulree to Newtonbridge via Auchnafree. The real challenge was getting there and back via public transport: 3 buses each way and a 05:00 start from Haymarket #hiking #Perthshire #Scotland

I worked in Dundee for 9 years and really enjoyed watching California Schemin’ yesterday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor... It almost got me liking rap music. Is there a style call Jock Rap?

As promised (threatened) these are today’s (Saturday’) pictures for the walk I recced on Thursday. Carlops to West Linton via the gorge over the N Esk and Harbour Craig. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

Carlops to West Linton. This was a recce for Saturday so be warned to expect more soon. #hiking #Scotland #Pentlands

More pictures from today’s circular walk from Malham with ex members of the @exeter.ac.uk OODS society #hiking #Yorkshire

Today’s hike is a widdershins circular from Malham. .#hiking #Yorkshire #OODSExeter

The annual reunion of our Ex @exeter.ac.uk Out of Doors Society (OODS) group is near Malham this year. #hiking #Yorkshire Today we did a circular from Newfield Hall taking in Gargrave and part of the Leeds Liverpool canal. #hiking #Yorkshire

For various reasons I have not been able to get out of Edinburgh for my usual hike this week so I have been reduced to wandering around the city. #hiking #Edinburgh

Rolling the dice for Table 1? Read this. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cards-...

“Because the military actions by Bern in Savoy were an invasion, the other Confederacy allies had no legal obligation to come to the aid of the Bernese.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgund...

MOT! I predict our amazing boss will say he is “proud of the lads”. #LUFC

As Helen Senn, my daughter is a conservation biologist. As Helen Watson. she is a travel writer and the author of Tea & Grit. www.bradtguides.com/product/brad... The May edition of Scottish Field has a very nice piece by Andy Dobson covering both these aspects of her life. #prouddad

We have just passed the vernal equinox but it appears that we have game of drones and I fear the stark reality that winter is coming.

“As they find their bodies aging you will find that many develop a tuck it list.” Sayings of Confuseus

Stop ignoring analysis of covariance or my head will explode. (With apologies to Christophe Lambert and David Cronenberg.) www.linkedin.com/pulse/causes...

That thing where after a long fruitless search on LinkedIn for a post you meant to reply to, you realise you saw it on BlueSky.

The horror, the horror. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am grateful to Scott Berry for inviting me onto his podcast 55: A Visit with Stephen Senn: Time, Concurrent Controls, and the Bayesian Guidance www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnb0...

So you carried out a controlled clinical trial? Bravo. Make sure you carry out a controlled analysis. You can bin those within-group standard errors, comparisons back to baselines and dynamite detonator plots for a start. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2277879/

Today’s hike was a clockwise circular from West Linton to Wolf Craigs ending up with a pint at The Gordon Arms #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland