Baseline comparisons and covariate fishing: Bad statistical habits we should have broken yesterday
Autor: | Stefan L. K. Gruijters |
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Přispěvatelé: | RS: FPN WSP II, Section Applied Social Psychology |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Zdroj: | The European Health Psychologist, 18(5), 205-209 |
ISSN: | 2225-6962 |
DOI: | 10.31234/osf.io/qftwg |
Popis: | Checks on baseline differences in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often done using null-hypothesis significance tests (NHSTs). However, the use of NHSTs to establish the degree of baseline similarity is inappropriate, potentially misleading, and, simply, logically incoherent. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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