Winston Lin

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senior lecturer in statistics, penn NYC & Philadelphia https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~winston

Screenshot from "Loi de Poisson" (French Wikipedia article). It says, "Ne doit pas être confondu avec Loi de Fisher."
from Amrhein, Greenland, & McShane ("Retire statistical significance," Nature, 2019) "For example, the authors above could have written: ‘Like a previous study, our results suggest a 20% increase in risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients given the anti-inflammatory drugs. Nonetheless, a risk difference ranging from a 3% decrease, a small negative association, to a 48% increase, a substantial positive association, is also reasonably compatible with our data, given our assumptions.’ "
Email to Stata explaining that Welch (1949) "welched" on Welch (1947), but refraining from asking if their co-founder Finis Welch was related to B. L. Welch. :) Continued in next screenshot
Cat eating in Woodside, Queens
Excerpt from Henry Scheffe's 1959 book "The Analysis of Variance": "We shall consider the efficiency of the randomized blocks design relative to the _completely randomized design_, in which the treatments are assigned at random to the IJ units subject only to the condition that each treatment appears J times, in such a way that all such assignments have equal probability."