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Publications (8)

stat.OT2020

Does preregistration improve the credibility of research findings?

Mark Rubin

Preregistration entails researchers registering their planned research hypotheses, methods, and analyses in a time-stamped document before they undertake their data collection and…

stat.ME2024

Type I Error Rates are Not Usually Inflated

Mark Rubin

The inflation of Type I error rates is thought to be one of the causes of the replication crisis. Questionable research practices such as p-hacking are thought to inflate Type I er…

stat.ME2025

Preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of severity in Popper's philosophy of science or when deviations are allowed

Mark Rubin

One justification for preregistering research hypotheses, methods, and analyses is that it improves the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests. In this article,…

stat.ME2024

Inconistent multiple testing corrections: The fallacy of using family-based error rates to make inferences about individual hypotheses

Mark Rubin

During multiple testing, researchers often adjust their alpha level to control the familywise error rate for a statistical inference about a joint union alternative hypothesis (e.g…

astro-ph2007

Spitzer observations of a 24 micron shadow: Bok Globule CB190

Amelia M. Stutz, John H. Bieging, George H. Rieke +8

We present Spitzer observations of the dark globule CB190 (L771). We observe a roughly circular 24 micron shadow with a 70 arcsec radius. The extinction profile of this shadow matc…

stat.OT2026

p-Hacking Inflates Type I Error Rates in the Error Statistical Approach but not in the Formal Inference Approach

Mark Rubin

p-hacking occurs when researchers conduct multiple significance tests (e.g., p1;H0,1 and p2;H0,2) and then selectively report tests that yield desirable (usually significant) resul…

stat.ME2021

When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: A consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing

Mark Rubin

Scientists often adjust their significance threshold (alpha level) during null hypothesis significance testing in order to take into account multiple testing and multiple compariso…

astro-ph2008

Spitzer Observations of Bok Globule B335: Isolated Star Formation Efficiency and Cloud Structure

Amelia M. Stutz, Mark Rubin, Michael W. Werner +8

We present infrared and millimeter observations of Barnard 335, the prototypical isolated Bok globule with an embedded protostar. Using Spitzer data we measure the source luminosit…