P-Hacking Lexical Richness Through Definitions of “Type” and “Token”

“P-hacking” is the repeated analysis of data until a statistically significant result is achieved. We show that p-hacking can also occur during data generation, sometimes unintentionally. We use the type-token ratio to demonstrate that differences in the definitions of “type” and “token” can produce...

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Autores principales: Cohen, K. Bretonnel, Hunter, Lawrence E., Pressman, Peter S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8956251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31438167
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190470
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description “P-hacking” is the repeated analysis of data until a statistically significant result is achieved. We show that p-hacking can also occur during data generation, sometimes unintentionally. We use the type-token ratio to demonstrate that differences in the definitions of “type” and “token” can produce significantly different results. Since these terms are rarely defined in the biomedical literature, the result is an inability to meaningfully interpret the body of literature that makes use of this measure.
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spelling pubmed-89562512022-03-25 P-Hacking Lexical Richness Through Definitions of “Type” and “Token” Cohen, K. Bretonnel Hunter, Lawrence E. Pressman, Peter S. Stud Health Technol Inform Article “P-hacking” is the repeated analysis of data until a statistically significant result is achieved. We show that p-hacking can also occur during data generation, sometimes unintentionally. We use the type-token ratio to demonstrate that differences in the definitions of “type” and “token” can produce significantly different results. Since these terms are rarely defined in the biomedical literature, the result is an inability to meaningfully interpret the body of literature that makes use of this measure. 2019-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8956251/ /pubmed/31438167 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190470 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8956251/
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