SUMMARY
- Provide details of power and sample size calculations.
- Describe treatment allocation.
- Detail exceptions including withdrawals and other sources of missing data.
- Use meaningful measures of dispersion.
- Use confidence intervals in preference to p-values.
- Report sources of bias.
- Formal statistical inference is appropriate only for randomized studies and predetermined hypotheses.
Counsel on reporting the results of model building is deferred to Chapter 13.