Filippo Gambarota, psychologist, postdoctoral researcher in Psychometrics at the University of Padova, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization (DPSS) and member of the Psicostat research group.
In this session we will introduce the concept of multiverse analysis applied to meta-analysis from an exploratory and inferential point of view. Multiverse analysis is a recently developed approach where given a certain research question and a dataset, authors conduct and report all plausible statistical analyses. Usually only one analysis is reported and the impact of other plausible alternatives (researcher’s degrees of freedom) on the final results is often neglected. We will see...