In the July issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, an editorial co-authored by Nicholas J. Horton and Sara Stoudt discusses the journal’s requirements for authors to share deidentified data and code that underlies their papers. Here, they provide the key take-aways.
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Jeffrey T. Leek Wins COPSS Presidents’ Award
The COPSS Presidents’ Award citation recognized Leek for influential work addressing high-dimensional data; for development of empirical tools for data science as a science with applications to meta-research, reproducibility, and replicability; for scaling (bio)statistics-centered data science education to millions of people worldwide; and for leveraging data science tools, educational technologies, and community partnerships to create economic opportunities in under-served communities.
ASA President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability
The value of hypothesis testing, and the frequent misinterpretation of p-values as a cornerstone of statistical methodology, continues to be debated. In 2019, the president of the American Statistical Association, Karen Kafadar, convened a task force to consider the use of statistical methods in scientific studies, specifically hypothesis tests and p-values, and their connection to replicability.