Book Review: Paul D. Ellis, The Essential Guide to Effect Sizes

Reviewed by Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) Paul. D. Ellis, The Essential Guide to Effect Sizes. Statistical Power, Meta-Analysis and the Interpretation of Research Results. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010. Link to book on publisher’s website. In the last few years, statistical hypothesis testing – with the p-value still being THE standard for reporting results in many […]


Study on “Quantified Self” Published: Links to Book and Summary

By Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) The final results of an interdisciplinary study funded by „TA Swiss“ on „Quantified Self“ with participation of the Datalab have been published. The study was performed by three ZHAW departments (School of Health Professions, School of Management and Law, School of Engineering) in cooperation with the Institute for Futures Studies and […]






Who is scared of the big bad robot?

By Lukas Tuggener (ZHAW) Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltuggener/ Reposted from https://medium.com/@ltuggener/who-is-scared-of-the-big-bad-robot-dc203e2cd7c4 There currently is much talk about the recent developments of AI and how it is going to affect the way we live our lives. While fears of super intelligent robots, which want to end all human live on earth, are mostly held by laymen. There are other […]