THE AMERICAN STATISTICIAN HIGHLIGHTS February Issue Offers Variety of Topics

摘要

The February 2019 issue of The American Statistician (TAS) features 13 articles. The General section begins with an article that delves into why p-values are controversial. The discussion centers on a connection between p-value and formal decision rules. The second article discusses marginal least squares estimators, which are important for the analysis of high-dimensional data. Asymptotic properties of these estimators are investigated under a correlated errors assumption. A third article revisits how to construct a confidence interval for a normal mean with just one observation when the variance is unknown. The article is dedicated to the memory of Charles Stein. The final article in this section discusses statistical characterizations through the use of equal-in-distribution identities.