TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
A1  - Mertzen, Daniela
A1  - Jaeger, Lena A.
A1  - Gelman, Andrew
T1  - The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability
JF  - Journal of memory and language
N2  - It is well-known in statistics (e.g., Gelman & Carlin, 2014) that treating a result as publishable just because the p-value is less than 0.05 leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability. These effects get published, leading to an overconfident belief in replicability. We demonstrate the adverse consequences of this statistical significance filter by conducting seven direct replication attempts (268 participants in total) of a recent paper (Levy & Keller, 2013). We show that the published claims are so noisy that even non-significant results are fully compatible with them. We also demonstrate the contrast between such small-sample studies and a larger-sample study; the latter generally yields a less noisy estimate but also a smaller effect magnitude, which looks less compelling but is more realistic. We reiterate several suggestions from the methodology literature for improving current practices.
KW  - Type M error
KW  - Replicability
KW  - Surprisal
KW  - Expectation
KW  - Locality
KW  - Bayesian data analysis
KW  - Parameter estimation
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.07.004
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 103
SP  - 151
EP  - 175
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clavier, Pierre J.
A1  - Guo, Li
A1  - Paycha, Sylvie
A1  - Zhang, Bin
T1  - An algebraic formulation of the locality principle in renormalisation
JF  - European Journal of Mathematics
N2  - We study the mathematical structure underlying the concept of locality which lies at the heart of classical and quantum field theory, and develop a machinery used to preserve locality during the renormalisation procedure. Viewing renormalisation in the framework of Connes and Kreimer as the algebraic Birkhoff factorisation of characters on a Hopf algebra with values in a Rota-Baxter algebra, we build locality variants of these algebraic structures, leading to a locality variant of the algebraic Birkhoff factorisation. This provides an algebraic formulation of the conservation of locality while renormalising. As an application in the context of the Euler-Maclaurin formula on lattice cones, we renormalise the exponential generating function which sums over the lattice points in a lattice cone. As a consequence, for a suitable multivariate regularisation, renormalisation from the algebraic Birkhoff factorisation amounts to composition by a projection onto holomorphic multivariate germs.
KW  - Locality
KW  - Renormalisation
KW  - Algebraic Birkhoff factorisation
KW  - Partial algebra
KW  - Hopf algebra
KW  - Rota-Baxter algebra
KW  - Multivariate meromorphic functions
KW  - Lattice cones
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40879-018-0255-8
SN  - 2199-675X
SN  - 2199-6768
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SP  - 356
EP  - 394
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -