Designing studies

(The author of this entry is Henrik von Wehrden.)

Before the experiment

Hypothesis building

The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.

Scientific results are:

1. Objective
2. Reproducible
3. Transferable

Sample size

Occam's razor the hell out of it!

The ladder (mean >0 [5], range >1 [5], variance >3 [7], distribution >10 [13], correlation >10 [30])

P-value

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Block effects

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