#preanalysis plan

The peer review process as a preregistration device

Preregistration of an analysis requires the prior unobservability of data. One publicly declares what one intends to do before one can access data. One goal of preregistration is to diffuse potential concerns that a publication misrepresents the order in which an empirical analysis was implemented. Reasons for prior unobservability of data could be that the data has yet to be produced (as in…