Quality Assurance & Testing
AlterLab Preregistration Discipline
Enforces pre-registration discipline with the Iron Law NO DATA ANALYSIS WITHOUT A PRE-REGISTERED ANALYSIS PLAN FIRST, a spirit-vs-letter line, an Excuse-vs-Reality rationalization table, and a Red-Flags-STOP list (HARKing, optional stopping, post-hoc covariates, outlier-dropping, test-shopping). Runs a PLAN/COLLECT/CONFIRM/EXPLORE workflow that freezes hypotheses, tests, exclusions, and stopping rules before data, then forces unplanned findings to be labeled exploratory (their p-values lose confirmatory status, per COS confirmatory/exploratory model). Orchestrates, not replaces, alterlab-open-science (OSF/AsPredicted registration), alterlab-statistical-analysis (test selection, assumptions), and alterlab-scientific-thinking (bias grading). Use when analyzing data without a frozen plan, switching the primary outcome or adding covariates after seeing results, weighing early stopping, dropping outliers post-hoc, pre-registering a study, or rationalizing deviation. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
- Publisher / source
- AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (found on the CSV list)
- Upstream record
- AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills
- Version
- Version 2
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication
- Content fingerprint
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