Research, statistics and uncertainty

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Research, statistics and uncertainty

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1. Sampling and study design (20 entries)
  1. a sampling artefact
  2. measurement invariance
  3. experimenter bias
  4. statistical power
  5. observer expectancy
  6. a natural experiment
  7. construct validity
  8. stratified sampling
  9. an exclusion restriction
  10. a floor effect
  11. an omitted variable
  12. residual confounding
  13. a ceiling effect
  14. survivorship bias
  15. multiple comparisons
  16. inter-rater reliability
  17. preregister a study
  18. range restriction
  19. a thought experiment
  20. availability heuristic
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2. Uncertainty and estimates (20 entries)
  1. propagation of uncertainty
  2. the standard error of the mean
  3. a test statistic
  4. an order statistic
  5. a sampling distribution
  6. a point estimator
  7. a prior distribution
  8. a prediction interval
  9. a confidence bound
  10. robustness to outliers
  11. a likelihood ratio
  12. a skewed distribution
  13. aleatory uncertainty
  14. a p-value
  15. conditional independence
  16. a bimodal distribution
  17. a fat-tailed distribution
  18. a spurious correlation
  19. an underdetermined question
  20. posterior odds
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3. Interpreting results (20 entries)
  1. an exploratory analysis
  2. an underpowered study
  3. a negative finding
  4. a confirmatory analysis
  5. a null result
  6. independent replication
  7. intention-to-treat analysis
  8. a placebo response
  9. a surrogate outcome
  10. operationalise a construct
  11. loss to follow-up
  12. the primary endpoint
  13. blinding of assessors
  14. a false discovery rate
  15. carry-over effects
  16. triangulate a finding
  17. a dose-response relationship
  18. false precision
  19. a nocebo effect
  20. diagnosis
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4. Strength and limits of evidence (20 entries)
  1. inferential limit
  2. an evidential asymmetry
  3. the limits of admissible evidence
  4. epistemic uncertainty
  5. take a claim on trust
  6. on the strength of
  7. an evidential threshold
  8. an unverifiable assumption
  9. epistemic humility
  10. the balance of probabilities
  11. an epistemic blind spot
  12. cognitive dissonance
  13. an axiom of the theory
  14. the problem of induction
  15. substantiation
  16. prove beyond reasonable doubt
  17. a shred of corroboration
  18. supposedly authoritative
  19. a heuristic device
  20. interrogate
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5. Research synthesis and inference (20 entries)
  1. delimit an inference
  2. reconcile
  3. a counterfactual outcome
  4. an instrumental variable
  5. triangulation
  6. reverse causality
  7. underdetermination
  8. observational equivalence
  9. endogeneity
  10. attrition bias
  11. regression to the mean
  12. the base-rate fallacy
  13. prior odds
  14. computational reproducibility
  15. put paid to a theory
  16. paradigm
  17. hypothesize
  18. use a proxy for
  19. extrapolate
  20. methodological
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