Commentary: Berkson's fallacy and missing data.

Notes and Commentary Hayek, Logic, and the Naturalistic Fallacy

In his paper titled “Did Hayek Commit the Naturalist Fallacy?” published in the September 2004 issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Erik Angner develops three theses. The first is that Friedrich Hayek’s own writings and those of competent commentators give plentiful evidence that Hayek appears to have inferred values from facts. (The appears is stressed because Angner himsel...

DIKIW: Data, Information, Knowledge, Intelligence, Wisdom and their Interrelationships

DIKW hierarchy is the model used for discussion of data, information, knowledge, wisdom and their interrelationships. However, definitions of data, information, and knowledge are entrapped in a logical fallacy known as circular definition. There are some agreements in the definitions without the fallacy. The missing ‘Intelligence’ in DIKW plays a major role between knowledge and wisdom. This gi...

Commentary on Scott Aikin, “A Modest Defense of Fallacy Theory”

Missing data imputation in multivariable time series data

Multivariate time series data are found in a variety of fields such as bioinformatics, biology, genetics, astronomy, geography and finance. Many time series datasets contain missing data. Multivariate time series missing data imputation is a challenging topic and needs to be carefully considered before learning or predicting time series. Frequent researches have been done on the use of diffe...

Avoiding the language-as-a-fixed-effect fallacy: How to estimate outcomes!of linear mixed models

Since the 1970s, researchers in psycholinguistics and the cognitive sciences have been aware of the language-as-fixedeffect fallacy, or the importance in statistical analyses to not only average across participants (F1) but also across items (F2). Originally, the language-as-fixed-effect fallacy was countered by proposing a combined measure (minF’) calculated by participant (F1) and item (F2) a...