Advanced Methods at Purdue

Dr. Brick took a trip this week to Purdue to speak at a symposium put together by the Advanced Methods at Purdue (AMAP) in the Behavioral, Health, and Social Sciences group.  They’re working hard to build up a strong multifaceted methods program out there, and seem to be doing pretty well.  Dr. Brick gave a talk entitled “Data Mining and Precision in Theory (Or: Rethinking Confirmatory Analysis)” about the increasingly blurry distinction between exploratory and confirmatory analysis as data mining approaches become more mainstream in the modern behavioral and health sciences.  State your hypotheses boldly, and be prepared to be wrong.