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SUMMARY:False Discovery Rates
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Them
 e seminar series\n\n\n\nDavid Colquhoun\, FRS is Emeritus Professor of P
 harmacology at University College\, London. David’s research has focused
  for many years on ligand-gated ion channels\, particularly on the molec
 ular mechanisms by which agonists activate receptors and cause ion chann
 els to open and close.   His landmark contributions to the field include
  the development of statistical methods to interpret single channel beha
 viour and test models of how ion channels function.  His interest in sta
 tistics led him to write one of the most helpful statistics text books “
 Lectures on biostatistics”. \nIn recent years\, David has become an outs
 poken critic of pseudoscience and scientific fraud.  He has written exte
 nsively on the topic\, appeared on TV and radio\, and runs an award winn
 ing blog “DC’s Improbable Science”\, devoted to improving the understand
 ing of science and highlighting bad science.  He is also an outspoken cr
 itic of modern judgements of science quality\, especially the use of met
 rics.  \nThe topic of this seminar stems from the growing concern that m
 any published results cannot be reproduced by other people.   David will
  explain how this may reflect the widespread mis-interpretation of p-val
 ues\, which he has written about in a Royal Society Open Science paper: 
 http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/3/140216.  If you care 
 about the quality of the conclusions you draw from your data\, you shoul
 d attend this seminar. \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:1.006\, AV Hill Building\, Manchester
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