Robust conclusions require rigorous statistics. In 2009 a seminal paper described the dangers and prevalence of double-dipping in neuroscience. Ten years on, I consider progress toward statistical rigor in neuroimaging.
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Button, K.S. Double-dipping revisited. Nat Neurosci 22, 688–690 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0398-z
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