Reporting statistical analyses in peer review journal articles
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Facilitating the Analysis of Immunological Data with Visual Analytic Techniques
Published on: January 2, 2011
Richard Stephens1, Maria J Grant
1Keele University. r.stephens@keele.ac.uk.
Abstract:
As a regular referee for the Health Information and Libraries Journal, Richard Stephens--Winner of the 2014 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize--has been impressed by the science on offer in the Health Information and Libraries Journal. But he has also been struck by how often similar problems with statistical analysis reporting come up during the review process. Acknowledging that statistics can be scary, he advocates that they should be simply viewed as a means of communicating ideas. In this editorial, he provides some straightforward guidelines on reporting statistical analyses in peer review journal articles, highlights pitfalls to avoid and illustrates best practice to aim for.
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