The following plot is from page 622 from a paper by Philip, et al., 2019. I’m pretty sure that this plot is of standard box plots, which show the median (line inside of the box), the first and third quartiles (the lower and upper edges of the box) and some measure of outliers (the “whiskers”)….
Month: February 2021
Should medical students be doing research?
I posted here some thoughts on biomedical research from a newbie’s perspective. In my current role I work with many medical students and residents with varying levels of research (and statistics) experience. They are expected to produce publishable research products as part of their program while also training to be good physicians. That seems like…
Thoughts on the quality of biomedical research from a statistician’s perspective
As a relative newcomer to biomedical research, I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half reading biomedical research journal articles. I was quickly shocked by the number of articles with unclear, incorrect, or otherwise poorly done statistical analyses. This article was one of the first search results from a Google search…