Data dredging (also known as data snooping or p-hacking) is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically...
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related terms data dredging, data fishing, and data snooping refer to the use of data mining methods to sample parts of a larger population data set that are...
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up dredge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dredge or dredging may refer to: Data dredging, the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data Dredg...
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Misuse of statistics (redirect from Data manipulation)
testing is a misuse of statistics. Data dredging is an abuse of data mining. In data dredging, large compilations of data are examined in order to find a...
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Anscombe's quartet, on importance of exploration Data dredging Predictive analytics Structured data analysis (statistics) Configural frequency analysis...
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Post hoc analysis (category Data analysis)
without adequate consideration of this problem is sometimes called data dredging by critics because the statistical associations that it finds are often...
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Testing hypotheses suggested by the data Texas sharpshooter fallacy Model selection Look-elsewhere effect Data dredging Miller, R.G. (1981). Simultaneous...
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suggested by the data while avoiding the fallacy described above. Bonferroni correction Data analysis Data dredging Exploratory data analysis HARKing...
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for the system, such as long term economic growth, could be seen as data dredging and overfitting. Silver said that "[i]t’s less that he has discovered...
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many degrees of freedom. In contrast to fishing expeditions such as data dredging where only expected or apparently-significant results are published...
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