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