A Survey of Tasks and Visualizations in Multiverse Analysis Reports

dc.contributor.authorHall, Brian D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Yangen_US
dc.contributor.authorJansen, Yvonneen_US
dc.contributor.authorDragicevic, Pierreen_US
dc.contributor.authorChevalier, Fannyen_US
dc.contributor.authorKay, Matthewen_US
dc.contributor.editorHauser, Helwig and Alliez, Pierreen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-25T12:31:06Z
dc.date.available2022-03-25T12:31:06Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractAnalysing data from experiments is a complex, multi‐step process, often with multiple defensible choices available at each step. While analysts often report a single analysis without documenting how it was chosen, this can cause serious transparency and methodological issues. To make the sensitivity of analysis results to analytical choices transparent, some statisticians and methodologists advocate the use of ‘multiverse analysis’: reporting the full range of outcomes that result from all combinations of defensible analytic choices. Summarizing this combinatorial explosion of statistical results presents unique challenges; several approaches to visualizing the output of multiverse analyses have been proposed across a variety of fields (e.g. psychology, statistics, economics, neuroscience). In this article, we (1) introduce a consistent conceptual framework and terminology for multiverse analyses that can be applied across fields; (2) identify the tasks researchers try to accomplish when visualizing multiverse analyses and (3) classify multiverse visualizations into ‘archetypes’, assessing how well each archetype supports each task. Our work sets a foundation for subsequent research on developing visualization tools and techniques to support multiverse analysis and its reporting.en_US
dc.description.documenttypestar
dc.description.number1
dc.description.sectionheadersMajor Revision from EuroVis Symposium
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume41
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.14443
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages402-426
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14443
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf14443
dc.publisher© 2022 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltden_US
dc.subjectmultiverse analysis
dc.subjectsensibility analysis
dc.subjecttransparent reporting
dc.subjectstatistical graphics
dc.titleA Survey of Tasks and Visualizations in Multiverse Analysis Reportsen_US
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