Month: July 2024

Which is the harder race: Tour de France or Vuelta a Espana

Posted on by Darren

Now that the Tour de France is wrapping up, I found this paper on comparing the Tour de France and the Vuelta in terms of (how the authors define) difficulty. I like these types of studies. Here is one arguing the Dawn Wall in Yosemite is the hardest rock climb in the world. I need…

Is p-hacking acceptable for exploratory data analysis? (Part 1)

Posted on by Darren

The problem of multiple comparison is well established in statistics. The multiple comparison problem occurs when many(!) hypothesis tests are performed on the same dataset. By doing so, the chance of a false positive result (e.g., finding a statistically significant result that is actually not) increases. For example, if performing 100 hypothesis tests each at…