Jerry Dallal wrote:
A few years ago (many years ago?) someone wrote an article for theIn a (probably unpublished) study a few years ago, a graduate student found that many or most of the articles which contained enough data to analyze in a language research archival journal drew conclusions with acceptable alpha levels, but with severely weak power - beta - levels. But hey, they presented data. Let's not knock their efforts too hard...
newsletter of the newsletter of the ASA Section on Teaching
Statistics in the Health Sciences in which he described having each
student select a published article "at random" and check for
internal consistency. Round-off errors were NOT counted as
violations. His students found errors in one quarter of all
articles checked. My experience with journal clubs suggests nothing
has changed in the intervening years.
Jay
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