The Replication Network
Furthering the Practice of Replication in Economics
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To p-value or Not To p-value, That Is The Question
[From the article, “Scientists, fishing for significance, get a meager catch” by Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus at the website STAT] “If you cast a wide enough net, you’ll find what looks like a prize-winning fish. But you’ll also catch a…
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Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Economist (21 January 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “Are Results in Top Journals To Be Trusted?”) A paper recently published in the American Economic Journal, entitled “Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back”, “analyses 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in three top American journals. It finds that the…
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