{"title":"Akaike Memorial Lecture 2020: Some of the challenges of statistical applications","authors":"John Copas","doi":"10.1007/s10463-022-00831-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There has always been a close link between statistical applications and the development of new statistical theory and methods. Even straightforward applications of standard methods can give rise to theoretical challenges leading to new statistical ideas. In my lecture, I will briefly review a few of the statistical developments in my own published papers and describe the applications which gave rise to them. I will then outline some current work on publication bias, one of the outstanding problems in the interpretation of literature reviews, particularly in the medical sciences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55511,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10463-022-00831-9","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"STATISTICS & PROBABILITY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There has always been a close link between statistical applications and the development of new statistical theory and methods. Even straightforward applications of standard methods can give rise to theoretical challenges leading to new statistical ideas. In my lecture, I will briefly review a few of the statistical developments in my own published papers and describe the applications which gave rise to them. I will then outline some current work on publication bias, one of the outstanding problems in the interpretation of literature reviews, particularly in the medical sciences.
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Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (AISM) aims to provide a forum for open communication among statisticians, and to contribute to the advancement of statistics as a science to enable humans to handle information in order to cope with uncertainties. It publishes high-quality papers that shed new light on the theoretical, computational and/or methodological aspects of statistical science. Emphasis is placed on (a) development of new methodologies motivated by real data, (b) development of unifying theories, and (c) analysis and improvement of existing methodologies and theories.