Replication—an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice—is gaining appreciation in psychology. Achieving replicability is important for making research …
D Lakens, AM Scheel… - Advances in methods and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychologists must be able to test both for the presence of an effect and for the absence of an effect. In addition to testing against zero, researchers can use the two one-sided tests …
Power analysis is an important tool to use when planning studies. This contribution aims to remind read-ers what power analysis is, emphasize why it matters, and articulate when and …
PE Shrout, JL Rodgers - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Psychology advances knowledge by testing statistical hypotheses using empirical observations and data. The expectation is that most statistically significant findings can be …
The sample size necessary to obtain a desired level of statistical power depends in part on the population value of the effect size, which is, by definition, unknown. A common approach …
Pre-registration of studies before they are conducted has recently become more feasible for researchers, and is encouraged by an increasing number of journals. However, because the …
C Albers, D Lakens - Journal of experimental social psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
When designing a study, the planned sample size is often based on power analyses. One way to choose an effect size for power analyses is by relying on pilot data. A-priori power …
Unplanned optional stopping rules have been criticized for inflating Type I error rates under the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm. Despite these criticisms, this …