Impact of redefining statistical significance on P-hacking and false positive rates: An agent-based model

• Ben G. Fitzpatrick ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Dennis M. Gorman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bfitzpatrick@lmu.edu (BGF); ctrombat@lion.lmu.edu (CT)

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Tempest Technologies, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  ⨯
• Dennis M. Gorman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Dennis M. Gorman

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1254-1448

  ⨯
• Caitlin Trombatore

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  * E-mail: bfitzpatrick@lmu.edu (BGF); ctrombat@lion.lmu.edu (CT)

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  ⨯