Scientific apophenia in strategic management research: Significance tests & mistaken inference

B Goldfarb, AA King - Strategic Management Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: This article uses distributional matching and posterior predictive checks
to estimate the extent of false and inflated findings in empirical research on strategic …

A direct approach to estimating false discovery rates conditional on covariates

SM Boca, JT Leek - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Modern scientific studies from many diverse areas of research abound with multiple
hypothesis testing concerns. The false discovery rate (FDR) is one of the most commonly …

A randomized trial in a massive online open course shows people don't know what a statistically significant relationship looks like, but they can learn

A Fisher, GB Anderson, R Peng, J Leek - PeerJ, 2014 - peerj.com
Scatterplots are the most common way for statisticians, scientists, and the public to visually
detect relationships between measured variables. At the same time, and despite widely …

[PDF][PDF] A regression framework for the proportion of true null hypotheses

SM Boca, JT Leek - Preprint bioRxiv, 2017 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The false discovery rate is one of the most commonly used error rates for measuring and
controlling rates of false discoveries when performing multiple tests. Adaptive false …

Knowledge transfer in vision tasks with incomplete data

Z Li - 2020 - ideals.illinois.edu
In many machine learning applications, some assumptions are so prevalent as to be left
unwritten: all necessary data are available throughout the training process, the training and …

[PDF][PDF] Tutorial for swfdr package

J Leek, S Boca - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2024 - s3.jcloud.sjtu.edu.cn
This package allows users to estimate the science-wise false discovery rate from Jager and
Leek (2013), using an EM approach due to the presence of rounding and censoring. It also …

[PDF][PDF] Methods for High Dimensional Analysis, Multiple Testing, and Visual Exploration

AJ Fisher - 2016 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
My thesis work focuses on aiding the practical implementation of advanced statistical
methods. Chapter 2 concerns the common practice of visual exploratory data analysis, and …

[PDF][PDF] 2.¿ Qué pretende y qué puede contestar la investigación biomédica?

E Cobo - Quaderns de la Fundació Dr. Antoni Esteve, 2013 - raco.cat
Este capítulo ofrece claves muy generales, pero básicas, para interpretar los estudios
empíricos. Incluye principios científicos, metodológicos, clínicos y estadísticos que …