How to address non-normality: A taxonomy of approaches, reviewed, and illustrated

J Pek, O Wong, ACM Wong - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The linear model often serves as a starting point for applying statistics in psychology. Often,
formal training beyond the linear model is limited, creating a potential pedagogical gap …

Structural equation modeling with many variables: A systematic review of issues and developments

L Deng, M Yang, KM Marcoulides - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Survey data in social, behavioral, and health sciences often contain many variables (p).
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is commonly used to analyze such data. With a …

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, G Blöschl - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

[HTML][HTML] Cluster-robust inference: A guide to empirical practice

JG MacKinnon, MØ Nielsen, MD Webb - Journal of Econometrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Methods for cluster-robust inference are routinely used in economics and many other
disciplines. However, it is only recently that theoretical foundations for the use of these …

Trading and arbitrage in cryptocurrency markets

I Makarov, A Schoar - Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Cryptocurrency markets exhibit periods of large, recurrent arbitrage opportunities across
exchanges. These price deviations are much larger across than within countries, and …

Revisiting event-study designs: robust and efficient estimation

K Borusyak, X Jaravel, J Spiess - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We develop a framework for difference-in-differences designs with staggered treatment
adoption and heterogeneous causal effects. We show that conventional regression-based …

A megastudy of text-based nudges encouraging patients to get vaccinated at an upcoming doctor's appointment

KL Milkman, MS Patel, L Gandhi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine
for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We …

Channeling fisher: Randomization tests and the statistical insignificance of seemingly significant experimental results

A Young - The quarterly journal of economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
I follow The Design of Experiments, using randomization statistical inference to test the null
hypothesis of no treatment effects in a comprehensive sample of 53 experimental papers …

A practitioner's guide to cluster-robust inference

AC Cameron, DL Miller - Journal of human resources, 2015 - jhr.uwpress.org
We consider statistical inference for regression when data are grouped into clusters, with
regression model errors independent across clusters but correlated within clusters …

Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation

J Mummolo - Proceedings of the national academy of …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The increasingly visible presence of heavily armed police units in American communities
has stoked widespread concern over the militarization of local law enforcement. Advocates …