{"id":128,"date":"2017-03-29T14:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/?p=128"},"modified":"2017-03-29T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:48:26","slug":"31-march-an-kang-misinterpretations-of-statistical-inference-and-the-theory-of-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2017\/03\/29\/31-march-an-kang-misinterpretations-of-statistical-inference-and-the-theory-of-causation\/","title":{"rendered":"31 March \u2013 An Kang \u201cMisinterpretations of statistical inference and the theory of causation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">In this talk I will present some common misinterpreted statistical\u00a0conclusions from daily media and explain several manipulations (deliberately or not) behind those famous stories. By introducing\/correcting critical statistics\u00a0concepts, the theory of causation will be discussed from my point of view. Hopefully this talk may provide some hints about how to stay sober in the COMING BIG DATA AGE.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"_n_X4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this talk I will present some common misinterpreted statistical\u00a0conclusions from daily media and explain several manipulations (deliberately or not) behind those famous stories. By &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2017\/03\/29\/31-march-an-kang-misinterpretations-of-statistical-inference-and-the-theory-of-causation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}