Negative / Null Result Report2018
Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Failure-mode index
Negative results in Mathematics
161 indexed negative results, null findings, and replication failures in Mathematics. Each entry is a real published study whose primary finding was negative — learn what already failed before you repeat it.
Most-cited failures in Mathematics
Negative / Null Result Report2019
The harmonic mean p -value for combining dependent tests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Generalizability of heterogeneous treatment effect estimates across samples
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6
Developmental Science
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics
American Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Should multiple imputation be the method of choice for handling missing data in randomized trials?
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Misuse of DeLong test to compare AUCs for nested models
Statistics in Medicine
Negative / Null Result Report2018
An Equivalence Approach to Balance and Placebo Tests
American Journal of Political Science
Negative / Null Result Report2015
A cautionary note on the use of the Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) in classification designs with and without within-subject factors
Frontiers in Psychology
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Random-Effects, Fixed-Effects and the within-between Specification for Clustered Data in Observational Health Studies: A Simulation Study
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2021
The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Experimental Political Science
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Vision senses number directly
Journal of Vision
Methods Dead-End2023
Minimum sample size for developing a multivariable prediction model using multinomial logistic regression
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Sample size considerations and predictive performance of multinomial logistic prediction models
Statistics in Medicine
Replication Failure2020
Translating evidence into practice: eligibility criteria fail to eliminate clinically significant differences between real-world and study populations
npj Digital Medicine
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Determining organ weight toxicity with Bayesian causal models: Improving on the analysis of relative organ weights
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Paired-Samples Tests of Equivalence
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Estimating the Power of Indirect Comparisons: A Simulation Study
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Are Network-Based Interventions a Useful Antiobesity Strategy? An Application of Simulation Models for Causal Inference in Epidemiology
American Journal of Epidemiology
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003)
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Bayesian reanalysis of null results reported in medicine: Strong yet variable evidence for the absence of treatment effects
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Increasing efficiency of preclinical research by group sequential designs
PLoS Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2012
When and for whom do frequencies facilitate performance? On the role of numerical literacy
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Can Computer-Assisted Discovery Learning Foster First Graders’ Fluency With the Most Basic Addition Combinations?
American Educational Research Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2023
Learning data science in elementary school mathematics: a comparative curriculum analysis
International Journal of STEM Education
Negative / Null Result Report2021
Scaling of contact networks for epidemic spreading in urban transit systems
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2026
Inferring variant-specific effective reproduction numbers from combined case and sequencing data
eLife
Negative / Null Result Report2024
Integrated longitudinal multiomics study identifies immune programs associated with acute COVID-19 severity and mortality
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Negative / Null Result Report2021
BIO-LGCA: A cellular automaton modelling class for analysing collective cell migration
PLoS Computational Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Comparison of the Effects of Computer-Based Practice and Conceptual Understanding Interventions on Mathematics Fact Retention and Generalization
The Journal of Educational Research
Negative / Null Result Report2026
Spatially explicit capture–recapture models for relative density
Ecology
Negative / Null Result Report2020
NASCO: A new method and program to generate dot arrays for non-symbolic number comparison tasks
Journal of Numerical Cognition
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Priming Mathematics Word Problem Structures in a Rural Elementary Classroom
Rural Special Education Quarterly
Negative / Null Result Report2010
No support for fluctuating asymmetry as a biomarker of chemical residues in livestock dung
The Canadian Entomologist
Negative / Null Result Report2018
The differential relationship between finger gnosis, and addition and subtraction: An fMRI study
Journal of Numerical Cognition
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Representation of numerical magnitude in math-anxious individuals
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Testing the interhemispheric deficit theory of dyslexia using the visual half-field technique
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Negative / Null Result Report2010
A SIMULATION STUDY ON TESTS FOR ONE-WAY ANOVA UNDER THE UNEQUAL VARIANCE ASSUMPTION
Communications Faculty Of Science University of Ankara Series A1Mathematics and Statistics
Negative / Null Result Report2026
Selecting the number of components in PCA via random signflips
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Negative / Null Result Report2026
The Effect of Omitted Variables on the Sign of Regression Coefficients
American Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2022
The role of analytical variability in secondary data replications: a replication of Kim et al. (2014)
Educational Research and Evaluation
Negative / Null Result Report2025
The Evolution and Future Directions of PBPK Modeling in FDA Regulatory Review
Pharmaceutics
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Predictive Modeling of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in RCTs
JAMA Network Open
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Strategies to address non-proportional hazards between survival curves - Lessons from phase III trials in hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal of Hepatology
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Evaluation of trajectory analysis for disease risk assessment: a scoping review
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Does enforcing fairness mitigate biases caused by subpopulation shift?
arXiv
Methods Dead-End2016
The Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimation For Parameters Arising From Partially Identified Models
arXiv
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Does preregistration improve the credibility of research findings?
arXiv
Negative / Null Result Report2015
The Poincaré Inequality does not improve with blow-up
arXiv
Negative / Null Result Report2024
Preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of severity in Popper's philosophy of science or when deviations are allowed
arXiv