“You will find that many alternative medicine enthusiasts are into proidiotics.” Sayings of Confuseus

I continue to be annoying about ANOVA www.linkedin.com/pulse/poolin...

Today’s hike was a circular from Torphin. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

Tea and Grit www.helenwatsonwriting.com by @helenwatsonwriter.bsky.social is now officially published. DOI Helen Watson is my daughter!

I have been invited to write a book with the title “AI statistics/ statistics for ML”. I can only assume that this invitation has been written by AI since, obviously “maximum likelihood for statistics” is a plausible title but the converse is not.

Today’s hike was from Eight Mile Burn to Flotterstone via W& E Kip. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

I am a sick as a parrot #LUFC

My latest rant is on "two-way ANOVA" (ugh!) www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-wa...

Today’s hike was our last of 2025 (number 113 for me) and was from Hillend to Torphin via Caerketton and Allermuir. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

It’s been a great 4 days hiking while staying with our daughter and son in law. Now returning by train from Newtonmore.

Today we have climbed Craig Dhubh of Clan McPherson fame. #hiking #Scotland

Old fart pointedly pontificating while pointing. (Loch Insh in the background.)

Our Christmas Day hike was up An Suidhe by Kincraig #hiking #Scotland #Highland

Today’s hike was with wife, daughter and son-in-law up Cairngorm. #Cairngorms #Hiking #Scotland

The author of Tea and Grit (in blue) ascending Cairngorm with her mother (in red). share.google/cJQGnGnCOy20... Merry Christmas Eve everyone.

Today’s walk was around Loch an Eilein near Aviemore #hiking #Cairngorms #Scotland

On the plus side, we are now on our way to summer. For those who like modelling periodic data, it’s a sine of the times.

“Do not confuse agreement with confirmation; it may simply be a case of singing from the same him sheet.” Sayings of Confuseus

As a conservationist, my daughter writes under the name Helen Senn As a travel writer she is known as Helen Watson. This is her account of her travels by bicycle with husband, Ed, along The Silk Road www.helenwatsonwriting.com

Today’s hike was from Carlops to W Linton via the N Esk gorge, Peggy’s Pool, Harbour Craig and Rutherford #hiking #Scotland

Nice piece on the COVID inquiry by Oliver Johnson open.substack.com/pub/bristoli...

Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser. Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire" #BMJChristmas www.bmj.com/content/391/...

“Do not be surprised as to whom you find working in nutritional epidemiology, for there is a clue in the first syllable “. Sayings of Confuseus

“If you seek food for thought in nutritional epidemiology, you may search long for the holy gruel.” Sayings of Confuseus

“One should only celebrate Wuthering Heights as if Brontë saw us”. Sayings of Confuseus

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The stuff of nightmares.

All I can say is MOT! And I don’t own a car #LUFC

“You will find that some trophies that are made of gold would better be made of iron but you may need to ponder y that is.” Sayings of Confuseus

“Some people are a soccer for awards.” Sayings of Confuseus

Today’s hike was morning only, since I had a lunchtime meeting. Wester Craiglockart and back via the Union Canal. #hiking #Edinburgh

“The difference between an orchestra and econometrics is that the former has variable instruments.” Sayings of Confuseus

"The predictions here are not of future events, as in the context of time-series analysis, but rather of what would have happened in the experiment if other conditions had prevailed." I'm baffled. This is from a paper of 1982. But experts inform me that causality is never considered in statistics.

A dull day today, so instead of my usual Thursday hike I had a wee stroll. I was rewarded by seeing this heron in Braidburn Valley Park. #Edinburgh

"They who study experiments will find that incompetent blockhead designs are common." Sayings of Confuseus

"... your columnist is a statistical totalitarian, who holds the radical view that statistical method should be applied to everything, even statistics." How to rescale examination marks (with added bonus of free Excel sheet). senns.uk/wprose.html#...

“You will find that multivariate analysis is an excellent way of finding answers when you don’t know the questions.” Sayings of Confuseus (Now corrected Previous version was a “no know” due to His Grand Sagacity having a senior moment .)

"we probably do not need to worry about the fact that the actual effect of one treatment rather than the other is not the same for all patients. Quite limited knowledge about an average improvement is the best that we can do" John Tukey, Controlled Clinical Trials, 1993 p282

"I recall 4 or 5 statisticians, including David Cox, Ram Gnanadesikan and myself, driving from London to Sheffield. The question arose of how often each of us used multivariate techniques. The answers I recall were in the range from 1 in 50 to 1 in 200." John Tukey, ISR, 1991, p130

The 16:26 LNER from Newcastle to Peterborough 1) The departures board states leaving from platform 3 2) An audio announcement states leaving from platform 2 3) Bur another audio says the next train from platform 2 will be to Dundee. 4) Where the platform notice says Peterborough . Bravo #LNER

Do Counterfactuals Break Bayesianism? And What Are Causal Bounds Useful For? In this week's issue of Causal Python Weekly: 1/ #CausalSky #MLSky #EconSky #StatSky #EpiSky

“The CDC used to be legendary but is now interested in the mythical.” Sayings of Confuseus

“In Switzerland you can have muesli for tea and in Britain you can have a measly imitation for breakfast but in America you will soon be able to have measles anytime at all.” Sayings of Confuseus

99% of all subgroup analyses give the others a bad name.

A lovely day for a walk in the #Pentlands I started in Carlops, diverted into Windy Gowl, ascended Mount Maw (wind and snowdrifts made this tough) and am now enjoying a pint in The Gordon Arms in West Linton #hiking #Scotland

“Many nowadays are obsessed with counterfactuals but old school statisticians count the factuals.” Sayings of Confuseus

Today’s walk was to Balerno along the Water of Leith. The herons were in evidence. #hiking #Scotland #Edinburgh

A similar walk today to last Saturday’s but this time accompanied by my wife #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

You may think that 10,000 social scientists can’t be wrong but have you considered split-plot analyses?

“You will find that many repeated measures analyses deserve to be placed in the spit-pot.” Sayings of Confuseus

You categorised patients as responders or non responders by dichotomising a change from baseline? You triple criminal!