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Data dredging, Wikipedia
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Data dredging, Wikipedia
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Data dredging, also known as data snooping or p-hacking, is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant, thus dramatically increasing and understating the risk of false positives.
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