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p-hacking

noun

Etymology

Blend of p-value + hacking, from "p" for probability. Coined by researchers Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson, and Joseph P. Simmons, in 2014.

  1. inherited from *hackynge✻
  2. compounded as p-hacking — “p-value + hacking”

Definitions

  1. The practice of reanalysis of data until a desired result is obtained which is…

    The practice of reanalysis of data until a desired result is obtained which is statistically significant.

  2. present participle and gerund of p-hack

  3. Alternative letter-case form of p-hacking

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for p-hacking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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