Reporting results
Reporting statistics
- Guidelines in the medical literature (Bailar & Mosteller, 1988; Altman et al, 1983)
- Guidelines in the phyisiology literature (Curran-Everett & Benos, 2004, their 2007 sequel, and their 2007 "last word" on the discussion of their paper)
- A new approach to Effective communication of standard errors and confidence intervals: Louis & Zeger 2009
- Statistical significance: see Statistical principles & resources
Tables
- Ehrenberg on "The Problem of Numeracy" for reporting tabular data, published in the American Statistician (1981)
- Koschat (2005) "A Case for Simple Tables" published in the American Statistician
Selective reporting
- In a 2008 NEJM paper, Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy, Turner and colleagues discuss the impact selective reporting has on risk-benefit ratios and estimates of drug effectiveness. Additional opinions in several letters to the editor.
Reporting observational studies
- STROBE statement checklists
- Abstracts: Writing informative abstracts and interpreting confidence intervals (Cummings et al paper)
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) website
- See also links to the Consort Group in Clinical Trials
Publishing: See Authorship & publication
REFERENCES
Bailar, John C., and Frederick Mosteller. "Guidelines for statistical reporting in articles for medical journals: amplifications and explanations." Annals of Internal Medicine 108.2 (1988): 266-273.
Curran-Everett, Douglas, and Dale J. Benos. "Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society." American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 287.2 (2004): L259-L261.
Louis, Thomas A., and Scott L. Zeger. "Effective communication of standard errors and confidence intervals." Biostatistics 10.1 (2009): 1-2.
Ehrenberg, A. S. C. "The problem of numeracy." The American Statistician 35.2 (1981): 67-71.
Koschat, Martin A. "A case for simple tables." The American Statistician (2012)
Turner, Erick H., et al. "Selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacy." New England Journal of Medicine 358.3 (2008): 252-260.
Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando. "Outcomes 18 months after the first human partial face transplantation." N Engl J Med 358.20 (2008): 2179-2180.
Cummings, Peter, Frederick P. Rivara, and Thomas D. Koepsell. "Writing informative abstracts for journal articles." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 158.11 (2004): 1086-1088.