Re:Software faults raise questions about the validity of bra...
by cafebeen on Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:37AM
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Despite the title, software was not at fault here. Rather, the paper found a higher than expected false positive rate due to a choice in statistical modeling. The conclusion was that nonparametric tests can avoid the issue.
So, none of the results are truly invalid in the way of a hypothetical software bug, since we know what modeling assumptions were used in the previous studies. Personally, I don't see a major problem, since most fMRI papers are exploratory, and we should be reproducing the major findings anyway. We should certainly start using nonparametric tests from here on out though!
So, none of the results are truly invalid in the way of a hypothetical software bug, since we know what modeling assumptions were used in the previous studies. Personally, I don't see a major problem, since most fMRI papers are exploratory, and we should be reproducing the major findings anyway. We should certainly start using nonparametric tests from here on out though!