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Empirical substantive research, such as in the life or social sciences, is commonly categorized into the two modes exploratory and confirmatory, both of which are essential to scientific progress. The...

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Hamilton College researchers tested strategies to reduce gender bias in student evaluations, but their efforts failed, highlighting how deeply ingrained bias remains.

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New policy requires authors to share analytic codes from all studies and data from all trials The case for sharing data from clinical research is strong.12 Clinical study data include all informatio...

Although new biostatistical methods are published at a very high rate, many of these developments are not trustworthy enough to be adopted by the scientific community. We propose a framework to think...

Method comparisons are essential to provide recommendations and guidance for applied researchers, who often have to choose from a plethora of available approaches. While many comparisons exist in the...

Many methodological comparison studies aim at identifying a single or a few “best performing” methods over a certain range of data sets. In this paper we take a different viewpoint by asking whether ...

For simulation studies that evaluate methods of handling missing data, we argue that generating partially observed data by fixing the complete data and repeatedly simulating the missingness indicator...

Developing new imputation methodology has become a very active field. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on how to perform simulation studies to evaluate the properties of imputation methods. In pa...

Comparative simulation studies are workhorse tools for benchmarking statistical methods. As with other empirical studies, the success of simulation studies hinges on the quality of their design, exec...

The constant development of new data analysis methods in many fields of research is accompanied by an increasing awareness that these new methods often perform better in their introductory paper than....

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The Biometrical Journal publishes papers on statistical methods and their applications to life sciences, encompassing medicine, environmental sciences & agriculture.

For decades, student ratings of university faculty have been used by administrators in high stakes faculty employment decisions such as tenure, promotion, contract renewal and reappointment, and merit...

Comparison studies in methodological research are intended to compare methods in an evidence-based manner, offering guidance to data analysts to select a suitable method for their application. To...

When different researchers study the same research question using the same dataset they may obtain different and potentially even conflicting results. This is because there is often substantial flexib...

At the Center for Open Science (COS), we build the tools to make it possible and easy for the research community to make scientific investigations' data, results, and outcomes open, transparent, and r...

Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

This course offers hands-on training in transparent and reproducible research practices. These include preregistration, analysis blinding, FAIR but safe data sharing, dynamic documents, and version co...

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Current attempts at methodological reform in sciences come in response to an overall lack of rigor in methodological and scientific practices in experimental sciences. However, most methodological ref...