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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…
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…
This is the first in a series of posts to support the decades long push by statisticians to move away from the null hypotheses significance testing (NHST) paradigm (e.g., “The results are statistically significant (p<0.05).”) to a more nuanced and comprehensive style of reporting statistical results. Here is a good starting point for background on…