COMMON MISTEAKS MISTAKES IN USING STATISTICS: Spotting and Avoiding Them

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Further References:

J. Coyne (2009), Are most positive findings in health psychology false ... or at least somewhat exaggerated?, European Health Psychologist, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 49 - 51.

J. P. A. Ioannidis (2008) Why most discovered true associations are inflated, Epidemiology vol 19 (5), 640 - 648.


C. Kilkenny et al, Improving Bioscience Research Reporting: The ARRIVE Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research, PLoS Biol 8(6): e1000412. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000412

Nature.com Peer-to-Peer blog Blog for peer reviewers and about peer review

PLoS Medicine Editors (2005) Minimizing Mistakes and Embracing Uncertainty, PLoS Med 2(8): e272, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020272. This is an editorial response to the Ioannis article mentioned in the Introduction to this website.