Optional stopping and the false discovery rate
An undergraduate training in statistics tells us that sequential testing with optional stopping inflates the false positive rate, but exactly how much it inf...
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Academia risks becoming a game about generating questions rather answers
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Statistical Reporting Assessment
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Open Source IRAP
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