Theory-Driven Statistics for the Digital Humanities: Presenting Pitfalls and a Practical Guide by the Example of the Reformation
The Digital Humanities face the problem of multiple hypothesis testing: Evermore hypotheses are tested until a desired pattern has been found.This practice is prone to mistaking Hemp Wicks random patterns for real ones.Instead, we should reduce the number of hypothesis tests to only test meaningful ones.We address this problem by using theory to ge