A few years ago, Josh “Don’t call him ‘hot hand’” Miller read Laplace’s classic book on probability theory and noticed that it anticipated much of the “heuristics and biases” literature (also called “cognitive illusions” or “behavioral economics”) of the past … Continue reading
Joshua Vogelstein writes: Since you’ve posted much on various independence test papers (e.g., Reshef et al., and then Simon & Tibshirani criticism, and then their back and forth), I thought perhaps you’d post this one as well. Tibshirani pointed out … Continue reading
Yakir Reshef writes: Our technical comment on Kinney and Atwal’s paper on MIC and equitability has come out in PNAS along with their response. Similarly to Ben Murrell, who also wrote you a note when he published a technical comment … Continue reading
Justin Kinney writes: I wanted to let you know that the critique Mickey Atwal and I wrote regarding equitability and the maximal information coefficient has just been published. We discussed this paper last year, under the heading, Too many MC’s … Continue reading
Justin Kinney writes: Since your blog has discussed the “maximal information coefficient” (MIC) of Reshef et al., I figured you might want to see the critique that Gurinder Atwal and I have posted. In short, Reshef et al.’s central claim … Continue reading
Malka Gorfine, Ruth Heller, and Yair Heller write a comment on the paper of Reshef et al. that we discussed a few months ago. Just to remind you what’s going on here, here’s my quick summary from December: Reshef et … Continue reading
Jeremy Fox asks what I think about this paper by David N. Reshef, Yakir Reshef, Hilary Finucane, Sharon Grossman, Gilean McVean, Peter Turnbaugh, Eric Lander, Michael Mitzenmacher, and Pardis Sabeti which proposes a new nonlinear R-squared-like measure. My quick answer … Continue reading