TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hassler, Uwe
A1  - Pohle, Marc-Oliver
T1  - Unlucky number 13? Manipulating evidence subject to snooping
T2  - International statistical review
N2  - Questionable research practices have generated considerable recent interest throughout and beyond the scientific community. We subsume such practices involving secret data snooping that influences subsequent statistical inference under the term MESSing (manipulating evidence subject to snooping) and discuss, illustrate and quantify the possibly dramatic effects of several forms of MESSing using an empirical and a simple theoretical example. The empirical example uses numbers from the most popular German lottery, which seem to suggest that 13 is an unlucky number.
KW  - data snooping
KW  - p-hacking
KW  - p-values
KW  - research transparency
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75376
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-753761
SN  - 1751-5823
N1  - Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 90
IS  - 2
SP  - 397
EP  - 410
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford ; Malden, Mass
ER  -