Enhancing Statistical Inference in Psychological Research via Prospective and Retrospective Design Analysis.

ABSTRACT: In the past two decades, psychological science has experienced an unprecedented replicability crisis, which has uncovered several issues. Among others, the use and misuse of statistical inference plays a key role in this crisis. Indeed, statistical inference is too often viewed as an isolated procedure limited to the analysis of data that have already been collected. Instead, statistical reasoning is necessary both at the planning stage and when interpreting the results of a research project. Based on these considerations, we build on and further develop an idea proposed by Gelman and Carlin (2014) termed "prospective and retrospective design analysis." Rather than focusing only on the statistical significance of a result and on the classical control of type I and type II errors, a compreh

SUBMITTER: Altoe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6970975 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature