Experimenting with Measurement Error: Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study
开发了处理实验测量误差的统计技术，并应用于加州理工学院队列研究数据，发现忽略测量误差会导致结果显著偏差，可能引发领域性偏见。
Measurement error is ubiquitous in experimental work. It leads to imperfect statistical controls, attenuated estimated effects of elicited behaviors, and biased correlations between characteristics. We develop statistical techniques for handling experimental measurement error. These techniques are applied to data from the Caltech Cohort Study, which conducts repeated incentivized surveys of the Caltech student body. We replicate three classic experiments, demonstrating that results change substantially when measurement error is accounted for. Collectively, these results show that failing to properly account for measurement error may cause a field-wide bias leading scholars to identify “new” phenomena.