Decision-making in research tasks with sequential testing.

<h4>Background</h4>In a recent controversial essay, published by JPA Ioannidis in PLoS Medicine, it has been argued that in some research fields, most of the published findings are false. Based on theoretical reasoning it can be shown that small effect sizes, error-prone tests, low prior...

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Main Authors: Thomas Pfeiffer, David G Rand, Anna Dreber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19240797/?tool=EBI