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Osvaldo Martin
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Osvaldo Martin

Osvaldo Martin is a researcher at CONICET, in Argentina. He has experience using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to simulate molecules and perform Bayesian inference. He loves to use Python to solve data analysis problems. He is especially motivated by the development and implementation of software tools for Bayesian statistics and probabilistic modeling. He is an open-source developer, and he contributes to Python libraries like PyMC, ArviZ and Bambi among others. He is interested in all aspects of the Bayesian workflow, including numerical methods for inference, diagnosis of sampling, evaluation and criticism of models, comparison of models and presentation of results.
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One pretty common statistical analysis is group comparison. We may be interested in how well patients respond to a certain drug, the reduction of car accidents by the introduction of a new traffic regulation, student performance under different teaching approaches, and so on.

Sometimes, this type of question is framed under the hypothesis testing scenario with the goal of declaring a result statistically significant. Relying only on statistical significance can be problematic for many reasons: on the one hand, statistical significance is not equivalent to practical significance; on the other hand, a really small effect can be declared significant just by collecting enough data. The idea of hypothesis testing is connected to the concept of p-values. This is not a fundamental connection but a cultural one; people are used to thinking that way mostly because that...

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Osvaldo Martin

Osvaldo Martin is a researcher at CONICET, in Argentina. He has experience using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to simulate molecules and perform Bayesian inference. He loves to use Python to solve data analysis problems. He is especially motivated by the development and implementation of software tools for Bayesian statistics and probabilistic modeling. He is an open-source developer, and he contributes to Python libraries like PyMC, ArviZ and Bambi among others. He is interested in all aspects of the Bayesian workflow, including numerical methods for inference, diagnosis of sampling, evaluation and criticism of models, comparison of models and presentation of results.
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