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How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials (crossposted from r/foodforthought) [Research]
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Here's the link, sorry I'm not terribly competent at posting: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02241-z It's hard to understand exactly what he did from the article but if you look at the first reference it becomes more clear: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2012.07128.x He show that the data generated by the previous author was insufficiently "random" -- the distributions of the "random" data lack tails. Maybe the author removed "outliers" or generated fake data. It's too much for me to go through everything right now but I thought you all would like it and I'm hoping to get back to it myself when I have a chance.

I tagged this as research because it's interesting to think about methods to check for falsified data and this is a new one for me, but if it's mis-tagged the mods can feel free to change it (I probably won't have a chance to check reddit again until this evening).

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