P-hacking in academic research : a critical review of the job strain model and of the association between night work and breast cancer in women
P-hacking can be described as a more or less deliberate, explorative approach to data analysis with a flexible/opportunistic search space and the reporting of primarily statistically significant findings. This leads to inflated type-1 error rates and to bias in reported estimates in the scientific l...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen
2017
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-141136 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-799-9 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-800-2 |