Guidelines, policies, recommended strategies
Ethical guidelines
- Human Subjects: See Human Subjects Research Policies
- Statistical societies: Ethical guidelines
- American Statistical Association (ASA 1999) (link)
- International Statistical Institute (ISI 2010) (link)
- Royal Statistical Society Code of Conduct (RSS 1993) (link)
- Epidemiology
- Environmental epidemiology (from ISEE website)
- Original 1999 guidelines
- New 2012 guidelines and EHP editorial about them
- Reanalysis and reinterpretation of others' work: ISEE guidelines
- NIH resources
- Public Health
- AJPH article A Code of Ethics for Public Health
- Publishing: See Reporting results
- UW policies:
Special topics
- Abstracts
- Writing informative abstracts and interpreting confidence intervals (Cummings et al paper)
- WSU guide to abstracts
- Analysis planning: Sheppard gives a template, oriented towards observational studies with a focus on inference about health effects. A version of this analysis plan was published in Chapter 7 of Environmental Epidemiology: Study methods and application by Baker & Nieuwenhuijsen
- Authorship: See Authorship
- Clinical Trials: See Clinical Trials
- Data management
- Responsible data management guidelines (HHS Office of Research Integrity)
- Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has lots of RCR resources (click on the RCR resources tab at the top of the page)
- Peer review: See Peer review
- Publication ethics
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) home page
- COPE Code of conduct and Best practice guidelines
- COPE Flow charts for editors
- Paper by Benos et al 2005 Ethics and scientific publication
- Reanalysis and reinterpretation of others' work
- Peer-reviewed paper (Neutra)
- guidelines
- Reporting observational studies
- STROBE statement checklists
- Reporting statistics: See Reporting results
- Writing: See Authorship
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Ryan K.; Brady J.; Cooke R.; Height D.; Jonsen A.; King P.; Lebacqz K.; Lousiell D.; Seldin D.; Sellar E.; Turtle R.; Regulations and Ethical Guidelines, The Belmont Report Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research, The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research; Office of Human Subjects Research 2008
Benos D.; Kirk K.; Hall J.; How to Review a Paper; Advance In Physiology Education 2003;27(2):47-52
Cummings P.; Rivara F.; Koepsell T.; Writing Informative Abstracts for Journal Articles; Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2004 Nov;158:1086-1088
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Finney D.; Calibration Guidelines Challenge Outlier Practices; American Statistical Association 2006 Nov; 60(4):309-314
LINK Procedural Guidelines Addressing Allegations of Scientific Allegations of Scientific and Scholarly Misconduct, Policy for addressing allegation of scientific and scholarly misconduct; Executive Order 2003; 4(9)
Iceland R.; ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics; Preamble, Values, Principle and Background; International Statistics Institute
Eden L.; Jibs Code of Ethics; JIBS 2010 Feb.
LINK Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine; On Being a scientist, A guide to responsible conduct in research: Third Edition; NAP 2009;http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192.html.
Neutra R.; Cohen A.; Fletcher T.; Michaels D.; Richter E.; Soskolne C.; Toward Guidelines for the Ethical Reanalysis and Reinterpretation of Another’s Research; Epidemiology 2006 May;17(3):335-338
Provenzale J.; Stanley R.; A Systematic Guide to Reviewing a Manuscript ; AJR 2005 Oct; 185:848-854
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Cournand A.; The Code of the Scientist and Its Relationship to Ethics; www.sciencemag.org; 1977 Nov; 699-705
The Regents of the University of Michigan; Policy Statement on the Integrity of Scholarship and Procedures for Investigating Allegations of Misconduct in the Pursuit of Scholarship & Research; www.rackham.umich.edu/policies/gsh/add
LINK GME Vendor Interaction Policy; UW Medicine 2008
van Bele G.; Statistical Rules of Thumb: Second Edition; Univ of Washington
Vardeman S.; Morris M.; General Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for young Statisticians; The American Statistician 2003 Feb; 57(1): 21-26
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Vardeman S.; Morris; Letters to the Editor; The American Statistician 2003 Feb; 57(1): 319-321