Data Dredging

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Data Dredging

(1) The use of a multiple-comparison method—e.g., Scheffe’s test—which allows investigators performing a study to select group means to test after the experiment begins, by allowing possible comparisons, one of which may suggest a trend in a study, hence the term ‘dredging’
(2) Digging through the data in a clinical trial trying to find statistically significant trends or differences between therapeutic arms

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