“Statistics is hard, especially when effects are small and variable and measurements are noisy. There are no quick fixes … and a formulaic approach to statistics is a principal cause of the current replication crisis.” — Blakeley McShane

'Everyone thinks that the data in other people’s subjects are in better shape.' -- John Tukey

Nine great stats papers published after 1970 normaldeviate.wordpress.com/… chosen by Rob Tibshirani

For network analysis, check out @NetworkFact.

Estimating the chances of something that hasn't happened yet johndcook.com/blog/2010/03/3…

Edward Tufte-style presentations in CSS github.com/edwardtufte/tufte… and LaTeX: tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-…

Unstructured data is an oxymoron johndcook.com/blog/2019/01/1…

The Bayes estimator with minimum quadratic loss for a parameter is the posterior mean of that parameter.

'Choice of an appropriate family of distributions may be the most challenging phase of analysis.' -- David Cox

Bioinformatics Q & A site bioinformatics.stackexchange…

Why fitting a logistic is nearly impossible from early data johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/1…

Index of surprise johndcook.com/blog/2022/12/1…

Kleinberg's theorem: There are no clustering algorithms that satisfy scale invariance, richness, and consistency.

'I am the very model of a professor statistical' johndcook.com/blog/2022/10/0…

The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test can have greater asymptotic relative efficiency than the t-test for heavy-tailed distributions.

'To calculate is not in itself to analyze.' -- Edgar Allen Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue

Earth-mover distance and t-closeness johndcook.com/blog/2018/11/0…

Unbiased estimators based on complete sufficient statistics are unique. -- Lehmahn-Scheffé theorem

Reference comparing R, Python, and MATLAB syntax mathesaurus.sourceforge.net/…

'A Bayesian is one who, vaguely expecting a horse, and catching a glimpse of a donkey, strongly believes he has seen a mule.' ~ @stephensenn

What does it mean to call noise white, pink, gray, etc? johndcook.com/blog/2015/12/0…