Better P-Curves: Making P-Curve Analysis More Robust To Errors, Fraud, and Ambitious P-Hacking, A Reply To Ulrich and Miller (2015).

When studies examine true effects, they generate right-skewed p-curves, distributions of statistically significant results with more low (.01 s) than high (.04 s) p values. What else can cause a right-skewed p-curve? First, we consider the possibility that researchers report only the smallest signif...

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Published in:	Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 144; no. 6; pp. 1146 - 1153
Main Authors:	Simonsohn, Uri, Simmons, Joseph P., Nelson, Leif D.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Dec2015
Subjects:	Statistical errors Computer hacking Skewness (Probability theory)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost