Analyzing nested experimental designs: A user-friendly resampling method to determine experimental significance

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PLoS Computational Biology (2022)
While hierarchical experimental designs are near-ubiquitous in neuroscience and biomedical research, researchers often do not take the structure of their datasets into account while performing statistical hypothesis tests. We present Hierarch, a Python package for analyzing nested experimental designs. Using a combination of permutation resampling and bootstrap aggregation, Hierarch can be used to perform hypothesis tests that maintain nominal Type I error rates and generate confidence intervals that maintain the nominal coverage probability without making distributional assumptions about the dataset of interest.

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Kulkarni, R. U., Wang, C. L., & Bertozzi, C. R. (2022). Analyzing nested experimental designs: A user-friendly resampling method to determine experimental significance. PLoS computational biology, 18(5), e1010061.