Hi Jesper and Steve,
I appreciate your patience and your continued willingness to engage in this discussion. I believe these methodological issues to be important and I am guessing that if it is not quite clear to me how TBSS carves out its immunity with respect to these issues, then it might also not be clear to others.
Perhaps I can simply ask a couple questions to provide clarification on your previous comments. For the moment, let me ask this: is it the non-parametric testing component of TBSS or the "blinded registration" that prevents its susceptibility to circularity?
Thanks,
Nick
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