4 papers
Designing Spatial Treatments
Stefan Faridani, Michael P. Leung
Spatial treatments are interventions assigned to locations potentially distinct from those of the responding units. We study their optimal design under a general model in which a u…
How Replicable Are Statistically Significant Findings?
Patrick Vu, Stefan Faridani
In the empirical sciences, significance thresholds often determine whether findings are treated as evidence of an effect. This paper studies how likely findings that just meet conv…
When is p-hacking detectable?
Stefan Faridani
We show that some forms of p-hacking cannot be detected by examining the histogram of t-statistics or their p-values. Even when p-hacking is detectable, standard tests may lack pow…
Testing for Underpowered Literatures
Stefan Faridani
How many experimental studies would have come to different conclusions had they been run on larger samples? I show how to estimate the expected number of statistically significant…