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September 12, 2019 | General | No Comments

My paper in American Scientist from 2013:

Screenshot of title of S-word article — https://www.americanscientist.org/article/do-we-really-need-the-s-word

The cover of the August 2019 issue of the American Statistical Association’s (ASA’s) magazine Significance:

By MD Higgs

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Megan Dailey Higgs is a statistician who loves to think and write about the use of statistical inference, reasoning, and methods in scientific research - among other things. She believes we should spend more time critically thinking about the human practice of "doing science" -- and specifically the past, present, and future roles of Statistics. She has a PhD in Statistics and has worked as a tenured professor, an environmental statistician, director of an academic statistical consulting program, and now works independently on a variety of different types of projects since founding Critical Inference LLC.

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