How to design a pre-specified statistical analysis approach to limit p-hacking in clinical trials: the Pre-SPEC framework

Abstract Results from clinical trials can be susceptible to bias if investigators choose their analysis approach after seeing trial data, as this can allow them to perform multiple analyses and then choose the method that provides the most favourable result (commonly referred to as ‘p-hacking’). Pre...

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Main Authors: Brennan C. Kahan, Gordon Forbes, Suzie Cro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01706-7