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Is This the Solution to P-Hacking?

E-values, a better alternative for p-values

Hennie de Harder
11 min readNov 16, 2023

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In scientific research, the manipulation of data and peeking at results have been problems for as long as the field has existed. Researchers often aim for a significant p-value to get published, which can lead to the temptation of stopping data collection early or manipulating the data. This practice, known as p-hacking, was the

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