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Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think

Jacob Westfall, Tal Yarkoni

Origins and Evolution of the Etruscans’ mtDNA

Silvia Ghirotto, Francesca Tassi, [ ... ], Guido Barbujani

Hypothesis Testing and Power Calculations for Taxonomic-Based Human Microbiome Data

Patricio S. La Rosa, J. Paul Brooks, [ ... ], William D. Shannon

Excess Success for Psychology Articles in the Journal Science

Gregory Francis, Jay Tanzman, William J. Matthews

Who Tweets? Deriving the Demographic Characteristics of Age, Occupation and Social Class from Twitter User Meta-Data

Luke Sloan, Jeffrey Morgan, Pete Burnap, Matthew Williams

Orthogonalization of Regressors in fMRI Models

Jeanette A. Mumford, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Russell A. Poldrack

Setting an Optimal α That Minimizes Errors in Null Hypothesis Significance Tests

Joseph F. Mudge, Leanne F. Baker, Christopher B. Edge, Jeff E. Houlahan

The relation between statistical power and inference in fMRI

Henk R. Cremers, Tor D. Wager, Tal Yarkoni

A Comparison of Phylogenetic Network Methods Using Computer Simulation

Steven M. Woolley, David Posada, Keith A. Crandall

Comparison of normalization approaches for gene expression studies completed with high-throughput sequencing

Farnoosh Abbas-Aghababazadeh, Qian Li, Brooke L. Fridley

LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel Methods for Constructing Home Ranges and Utilization Distributions

Wayne M. Getz, Scott Fortmann-Roe, [ ... ], Christopher C. Wilmers

Bias caused by sampling error in meta-analysis with small sample sizes

Lifeng Lin

Second-generation p-values: Improved rigor, reproducibility, & transparency in statistical analyses

Jeffrey D. Blume, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, William D. Dupont, Robert A. Greevy Jr.

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