Kristin Sainani
Special guest
Kristin Sainani is an associate professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. She teaches statistics and writing; does research in sports medicine; and writes about science, health, and statistics for a variety of audiences. She also has a Coursera course on writing in the sciences.
Kristin Sainani has been a guest on 1 episode.
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91: Shifting the goalposts in statistics (with Kristin Sainani)
September 2nd, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
We chat with Kristin Sainani (Stanford University) about a popular statistical method in sports medicine research (magnitude based inference), which has been banned by some journals, but continues to thrive in some pockets of scholarship. We also discuss the role of statistical inference in the current replication crisis.