reanalysis
ree-uh-NAL-uh-sis
Definition
The act of examining data or research results again, often using new methods or fresh data to verify original conclusions.
Etymology
Derived from the prefix 're-' (again) combined with 'analysis,' which comes from the Greek 'analusis' (a loosening or breaking up). It entered English to describe the critical examination of something already studied.
In the news
The author notes that Heyman and Smith Slep's study was not a reanalysis of previous researchers' work, but rather a demonstration of a statistical flaw in how divorce predictions were reported.
A divorce-prediction equation was 90 percent accurate on the data it was built from, but when it flagged a couple as heading for divorce in a fresh sample it was right only 29 percent of the time, which is the trouble with rules like these
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