Statistics

No evidence of publication bias in climate change science

Non-significant results are less likely to be reported by authors and, when submitted for peer review, are less likely to be published by journal editors. This phenomenon, known collectively as publication bias, is seen in a variety of scientific …

P values in display items are ubiquitous and almost invariably significant: A survey of top science journals

P values represent a widely used, but pervasively misunderstood and fiercely contested method of scientific inference. Display items, such as figures and tables, often containing the main results, are an important source of P values. We conducted a …

Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution

We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically significant results, p hacking, and hypothesising after the results are …

Reproducible statistics for psychologists with R Lab Tutorials

This is a series of labs/tutorials currently under development (2020-2021) for a two-semester graduate-level statistics sequence in Psychology @ Brooklyn College of CUNY. The goal of these tutorials is to 1) develop a deeper conceptual understanding …

Resolving the Tension Between Exploration and Confirmation in Preclinical Biomedical Research

Confirmation through competent replication is a founding principle of modern science. However, biomedical researchers are rewarded for innovation, and not for confirmation, and confirmatory research is often stigmatized as unoriginal and as a …

Statistics and Quantitative Methods Example Videos for Teaching

The goal of this repository is to index and host short videos that can be used to supplement the teaching of introductory statistics concepts. The purpose of these videos is to show students examples of statistical concepts being used in real …

Statistics of DOOM

About Stats of DOOM Support Statistics of DOOM! This page and the YouTube channel to help people learn statistics by including step-by-step instructions for SPSS, R, Excel, and other programs. Demonstrations are provided including power, data …

Statistics with JASP and the Open Science Framework

This webinar will introduce the integration of JASP Statistical Software (https://jasp-stats.org/) with the Open Science Framework (OSF; https://osf.io). The OSF is a free, open source web application built to help researchers manage their workflows. …

The earth is flat (p > 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research

The widespread use of ‘statistical significance’ as a license for making a claim of a scientific finding leads to considerable distortion of the scientific process (according to the American Statistical Association). We review why degrading p-values …

The General Linear Model: Semester 2

A syllabi used for general linear model