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Unlucky Number 13? Manipulating Evidence Subject to Snooping

Questionable research practices have generated considerable recent interest throughout and beyond the scientific community. We subsume such practices involving secret data snooping that influences subsequent statistical inference under the term MESSing (manipulating evidence subject to snooping) and discuss, illustrate and quantify the possibly dramatic effects of several forms of MESSing using an empirical and a simple theoretical example. The empirical example uses numbers from the most popular German lottery, which seem to suggest that 13 is an unlucky number.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: International Statistical Review ; ISSN: 1751-5823 ; Volume: 90 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 397-410 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Subject
data snooping
p‐hacking
p‐values
research transparency

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hassler, Uwe
Pohle, Marc‐Oliver
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Wiley
(where)
Hoboken, NJ
(when)
2022

DOI
doi:10.1111/insr.12488
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  • Hassler, Uwe
  • Pohle, Marc‐Oliver
  • Wiley

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  • 2022

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