Introduction. Your analysis produces a statistically insignificant estimate. Is it because the effect is negligibly different from zero? Or because your research design does not have sufficient power to achieve statistical significance? Alternatively, you read that “The median statistical power…
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[This blog first appeared at the MAER-Net Blog under the title “Something I Recently Learned About PCCs That Maybe You Also Didn’t Know”, see here] While TRN is primarily dedicated to replications in economics, I also do research on meta-analysis. As…
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Tags: Bias, Chris Doucouliagos, Inverse variance weighting, maer-net, Meta-analysis, Partial Correlation Coefficients, PCC, Robbie van Aert, Tom Stanley, Variance, Weighted Least Squares
[From the abstract of the article “What Meta-Analyses Reveal About the Replicability of Psychological Research” by T.D. Stanley, Evan Carter, and Hristos Doucouliagos, published in Psychological Bulletin] “Can recent failures to replicate psychological research be explained by typical magnitudes of statistical power,bias…
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TRN previously posted about two sessions on replication at the 2017 ASSA meetings. In what may be a sign of changing times, the American Economic Association is sponsoring a third session on this topic. The session, “Meta-Analysis and Reproducibility in…
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