Valentin Amrhein

Valentin Amrhein (2019)

Valentin Amrhein (born April 1, 1971 in Lübeck ) is a German / Swiss zoologist and professor at the University of Basel as well as a science journalist .

Life

Amrhein, originally from Bonn comes, studied at the University of Basel between 1992 and 1999 Biology . Since 1999 he has been director of the Petite Camargue Alsacienne research station . Amrhein did his doctorate with Heinz Durrer on the nightingale and passed his doctoral examination in 2004. A research stay at the University of Oslo followed . Amrhein has been teaching ornithology , nature conservation biology and statistics at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basel since 2006 . He also works as a science journalist and was Head of Communication at the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences from 2012 to 2016 . Since 2017 he has been editor of the Ornithological Observers magazine at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach . In 2019, Amrhein published a comment on statistical significance in the journal Nature , which had the highest online attention value of all scientific publications recorded by Altmetric up to this point in time .

Amrhein is married and has three daughters. During school and university he played the violin in various orchestras and chamber music formations .

Important publications

• V. Amrhein, S. Greenland , B. McShane: Retire statistical significance (online title: Scientists rise up against statistical significance). In: Nature. March 2019.
• V. Amrhein, D. Trafimow, S. Greenland: Inferential statistics as descriptive statistics: there is no replication crisis if we don't expect replication. In: The American Statistician. Volume 73, No. Supl 1, 2019, pp. 262-270.
• V. Amrhein, S. Greenland: Remove, rather than redefine, statistical significance. In: Nature Human Behavior. Volume 2, January 2018, p. 4.
• V. Amrhein, F. Korner-Nievergelt, T. Roth: The earth is flat (p> 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research. In: PeerJ. Volume 5, 2017, Article e3544.
• T. Roth, M. Plattner, V. Amrhein: Plants, birds and butterflies: short-term responses of species communities to climate warming vary by taxon and with altitude. In: PLOS ONE. January 2014.
• V. Amrhein, P. Korner, M. Naguib: Nocturnal and diurnal singing activity in the nightingale: correlations with mating status and breeding cycle. In: Animal Behavior. Volume 64, No. 6, 2002, pp. 939-944.

Web links

• Valentin Amrhein on the website of the University of Basel
• Inferential statistics is not inferential Article by Valentin Amrhein on the Replication crisis

Individual evidence

1. ^ Amrhein Valentin - Department of Environmental Sciences. Retrieved November 19, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The one who dances with the nightingales . In: TagesWoche . April 1, 2015 ( tageswoche.ch [accessed on November 19, 2018]).
3. ^ ^{A b} Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne. Retrieved November 19, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Valentin Amrhein: Dissertation with curriculum vitae. (PDF) Retrieved November 19, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} The paradise for shrill birds . In: bz Basel . ( bzbasel.ch [accessed on November 19, 2018]).
6. ↑ Ornithological Observer. Retrieved April 10, 2020 . 
7. ^ Research of the Month: It's time to retire statistical significance. In: Altmetric. June 3, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019 .