The Replication Network
Furthering the Practice of Replication in Economics
Category: NEWS & EVENTS
POV: Registered Reports Versus Results-Free Peer Reviews
The main difference between “registered reports” and “results-free peer reviews” is timing of data analysis. With registered reports, plans are registered and reviewed before data are collected and analyzed. With results-free peer reviews, everything is completed, but the reviewers are…
Read MoreDo Guidelines on Statistical Practice Make a Difference?
[The post below comes from a review by Richard Morey of the article “Meeting the challenge of the Psychonomic Society’s 2012 Guidelines on Statistical Issues: Some success and some room for improvement“, published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review by Peter…
Read MoreJournal Announces Call for “Insignificant Results in Public Finance”
The journal FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis put out the following call for a special issue: “There is considerable concern among scholars that empirical papers are facing a drastically smaller chance of being published if the results looking to confirm an…
Read MoreNovelty Versus Prediction
[From the article, “Point of View: How should novelty be valued in science?” by Barak A. Cohen, published in the journal eLife] “Scientists are under increasing pressure to do “novel” research. Here I explore whether there are risks to overemphasizing…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Vox (July 31, 2017)
[From the article “What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science — and how to fix it” by Brian Resnick at Vox.com] “There’s a huge debate going on in social science right now. The question is simple, and strikes…
Read More2 Humps = P-Hacking + Publication Bias?
In a recent blogpost at Simply Statistics, Jeff Leek announced a new R package called tidypvals: “The tidypvals package is an effort to find previous collections of published p-values, synthesize them, and tidy them into one analyzable data set.” In a preview…
Read MoreIf At First You Don’t Succeed, Change Alpha
In a recent working paper, posted on PsyArXiv Preprints, Daniel Benjamin, James Berger, Magnus Johanneson, Brian Nosek, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, and 67 other authors(!) argue for a stricter standard of statistical significance for studies claiming new discoveries. In their words: “…we…
Read MoreAEA Journals Looking for a Data Editor
[From the website of the American Economic Association.] “The American Economic Association seeks nominations for a new Data Editor to design and oversee its journals’ strategy for curating research data and promoting reproducible research.” … “The duties of the Data…
Read MoreCalling All PhD Students: Do a Replication. Get Paid.
J-PAL has been awarded a three-year grant to promote Research Transparency and Reproducibility. One primary component of this grant is to facilitate the reproducibility of 36 studies through pre-publication reanalyses, a new attempt to conduct code replications of research before…
Read MoreReasons for Loving Null Results
In a great blog (“Why we should love null results”) posted at The 100% CI, Anne Scheel gives some reasons why we should love statistically insignificant findings. Her reasons include: — “We should love null results to counter our tendency…
Read More
You must be logged in to post a comment.