Index

B | C | D | F | K | M | O | P | R | S | T | V | W

B

  • base rate fallacy
    • gun use
    • mammograms

C

  • clinical trial protocol
  • confidence interval, [1]

D

  • de Moivre's equation

F

  • false discovery rate

K

  • kidney cancer

M

  • mammograms
  • meta-analyses
  • multiple comparisons
    • Atlantic salmon
    • false discovery rate

O

  • oncological ontology
  • open data

P

  • p value
    • base rate fallacy
    • errors in calculation, [1]
    • in stopping rules
  • power
    • coin flip
    • psychic powers
    • right turn on red
    • truth inflation
  • power curve
  • pseudoreplication
  • psychic powers

R

  • replication
  • reproducible research
  • researcher freedom
  • right turn on red

S

  • sample size
  • schizophrenia
  • standard deviation
  • standard error
  • statistical power
    • see power
  • stopping rules
    • omitted

T

  • truth inflation

V

  • vibration of effects

W

  • winner's curse
    • see truth inflation

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Table Of Contents

  • Introduction
  • An introduction to data analysis
  • Statistical power and underpowered statistics
  • Pseudoreplication: choose your data wisely
  • The p value and the base rate fallacy
  • When differences in significance aren’t significant differences
  • Stopping rules and regression to the mean
  • Researcher freedom: good vibrations?
  • Everybody makes mistakes
  • Hiding the data
  • What have we wrought?
  • What can be done?
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography

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