Math & SciencesData & AnalyticsOpen accessPublished 2 Oct 2026
Enforces pre-registration discipline with the Iron Law NO DATA ANALYSIS WITHOUT A PRE-REGISTERED ANALYSIS PLAN FIRST, a spirit-vs-letter line, an Excuse-vs-Reality rationalization table, and a Red-Flags-STOP list (HARKing, optional stopping, post-hoc covariates, outlier-dropping, test-shopping). Runs a PLAN/COLLECT/CONFIRM/EXPLORE workflow that freezes hypotheses, tests, exclusions, and stopping rules before data, then forces unplanned findings to be labeled exploratory (their p-values lose confirmatory status, per COS confirmatory/exploratory model). Orchestrates, not replaces, alterlab-open-science (OSF/AsPredicted registration), alterlab-statistical-analysis (test sele…