On Fake Research, “Academic” Spam, and ASEO

Oldie but goodie. Little has changed since then as can be seen from the comparative below. BEFORE: ASEO Academic Search … More

How to Lie with Bar Graphs: A Tool for Agents of Misinformation and Fake News

In the article, The Use and Abuse of Logarithmic Axes, Harvey J. Motulsky explained how bar graphs can be used … More

Happy to see that Bruce J. Ladewski’s PhD thesis, Expanding a Path Analytic Model of Quality Management to Include the … More

Tired of misleading claims? Even in Science you can find some of these puppies. Here are three of them: … More

Our tutorial on standard errors is back! It is now available at Click to access a-tutorial-on-standard-errors.pdf We have edited and … More

Happy to see that The Self-Weighting Model (SWM) paper (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03610926.2011.654037) was briefly cited in the Virus Evolution journal published by … More

The hilarious picture above shows how some SEOs look when playing to be scientists. This often occurs when interpreting big … More

I received this morning from the editors of Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods confirmation that they accepted and will … More

Back in 2008, Jan M. Hoem wrote an interesting reflexion paper titled “The reporting of statistical significance in scientific journals” … More

One of the trickiest aspects of publishing statistical studies is the sample size to be used. Not stipulating a valid … More