Chapter 8: Common issues

Contents

8.1  Cherry picking
8.1.1  Multiple tests
8.1.2  Multiple statistics
8.1.3  Outliers
8.1.4  Post-hoc hypothesis
8.1.5  The file drawer effect
8.2  Inter-related factors
8.2.1  Non-independently controllable factors
8.2.2  Correlated features
8.3  Everything is random
8.4  The same or worse
8.4.1  Everything is unlikely
8.4.2  Numeric data
8.4.3  More complex ‘or worse’
8.4.4  Post-hoc corrections
8.5  What you can say – phenomena and statisticians

Glossary items referenced in this chapter