Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets
<jats:p> Secondary data analysis, or the analysis of preexisting data, provides a powerful tool for the resourceful psychological scientist. Never has this been more true than now, when technological advances enable both sharing data across labs and continents and mining large sources of preex...
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| author | Weston, S Ritchie, S Rohrer, J Przybylski, A |
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| description | <jats:p> Secondary data analysis, or the analysis of preexisting data, provides a powerful tool for the resourceful psychological scientist. Never has this been more true than now, when technological advances enable both sharing data across labs and continents and mining large sources of preexisting data. However, secondary data analysis is easily overlooked as a key domain for developing new open-science practices or improving analytic methods for robust data analysis. In this article, we provide researchers with the knowledge necessary to incorporate secondary data analysis into their methodological toolbox. We explain that secondary data analysis can be used for either exploratory or confirmatory work, and can be either correlational or experimental, and we highlight the advantages and disadvantages of this type of research. We describe how transparency-enhancing practices can improve and alter interpretations of results from secondary data analysis and discuss approaches that can be used to improve the robustness of reported results. We close by suggesting ways in which scientific subfields and institutions could address and improve the use of secondary data analysis. </jats:p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b8dc4e5a-a018-4371-9260-a8c36faf40522022-03-27T04:58:55ZRecommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data setsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b8dc4e5a-a018-4371-9260-a8c36faf4052EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSAGE Publications2019Weston, SRitchie, SRohrer, JPrzybylski, A<jats:p> Secondary data analysis, or the analysis of preexisting data, provides a powerful tool for the resourceful psychological scientist. Never has this been more true than now, when technological advances enable both sharing data across labs and continents and mining large sources of preexisting data. However, secondary data analysis is easily overlooked as a key domain for developing new open-science practices or improving analytic methods for robust data analysis. In this article, we provide researchers with the knowledge necessary to incorporate secondary data analysis into their methodological toolbox. We explain that secondary data analysis can be used for either exploratory or confirmatory work, and can be either correlational or experimental, and we highlight the advantages and disadvantages of this type of research. We describe how transparency-enhancing practices can improve and alter interpretations of results from secondary data analysis and discuss approaches that can be used to improve the robustness of reported results. We close by suggesting ways in which scientific subfields and institutions could address and improve the use of secondary data analysis. </jats:p> |
| spellingShingle | Weston, S Ritchie, S Rohrer, J Przybylski, A Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets |
| title | Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets |
| title_full | Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets |
| title_fullStr | Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets |
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| title_short | Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets |
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