Premium
The Pivotal Role of Replication in Psychological Research: Empirically Evaluating the Replicability of Sample Results
Author(s) -
Thompson Bruce
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1994.tb00289.x
Subject(s) - replication (statistics) , jackknife resampling , psychology , sample (material) , heuristic , set (abstract data type) , psychological research , psychological science , social psychology , applied psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , statistics , mathematics , chemistry , chromatography , estimator , programming language
This Article discusses reasons for the contemporary emphasis on evaluating the replicability of results from psychological research. Three logics for empirically evaluating the replicability of sample results—cross‐validation, the jackknife, and the bootstrap—are described. A small heuristic data set is employed to make the discussion more concrete and accessible.