Abraham Wald was discussed in Jordan Ellenbergs book “How Not to Be Wrong The Power of Mathematical Thinking.” WWII and the armoring of planes and suvivorship bias
2/2 More surprises/lessons. 5.) He was a 1st yr! 6.) He didn't publish the 2nd proof, but 7 yrs later got an already typeset paper re-proving it from Abraham Wald, sent b/c Wald heard (late) about the prior proof. Wald then inserted Dantzig's name before his own as 1st author.https://twitter.com/goodmanmetrics/status/1071923656366804993 …
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Thanks for: “Many scientists assume that the P value is a confidence index...a P value under 5% implies a 95% or greater probability of the effect.”
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