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Choosing the Right α: What You Need to Know

[From the article “The quest for an optimal alpha” by Jeff Miller and Rolf Ulrich, published in PLOS One] “The purpose of the present article is to show exactly what is necessary to provide a principled justification for a particular α…

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MILLER: The Statistical Fundamentals of (Non-)Replicability

“Replicability of findings is at the heart of any empirical science” (Asendorpf, Conner, De Fruyt, et al., 2013, p. 108) The idea that scientific results should be reliably demonstrable under controlled circumstances has a special status in science.  In contrast…

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