Abstract:Science suffers from a reproducibility crisis. Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) helps address this crisis by preventing the selective reporting of results and arbitrary data analysis choices. SCA plots the variability (or heterogeneity) of treatment effects against all ‘reasonable specifications’ (ways to conduct analysis). However, SCA has also been used for formal statistical inference on a type of global average (median) treatment effect (ATE), leading a study by Orben & Przybylski to conclude tha… Show more
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