Category: Statistics

Thoughts on the quality of biomedical research from a statistician’s perspective

Posted on by Darren

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…

Reporting a confidence interval in place of a p value

Posted on by Darren

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…