July 2012
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352 pages
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English
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Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them), 4th Edition
by Phillip I. Good, James W. Hardin
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The text by Lang and Secic [1997] is must reading; reporting criteria for meta-analyses are given on pages 177ff. See Tufte [1983] on the issue of table versus graph. For more on the geometric versus arithmetic mean, see Parkhurst [1998]. For more on reporting requirements, see Begg et al. [1996], Bailar and Mosteller [1988], Grant [1989], Altman et al. [2001; the revised CONSORT statement], and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [1997].
Mosteller [1979] and Anderson and Hauck [1986] warn against the failure to submit reports of negative or inconclusive studies and the failure of journal editors to accept them. To address this issue the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine has been launched at http://www.jnrbm.com/start.asp. For a review of the many instances in which a one-time scientific consensus was subsequently reversed, see http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/29/agreeing-to-agree.
On the proper role of p-values, see Neyman [1977], Cox [1977], and Poole [1987, 2001]. For adjusting for multiple testing, see Aickin and Gensler [1996], Proschan and Waclawiw [2000], and Saville [2003]. See also McCloskey and Ziliac [2008].
To learn more about decision theory and regions of indifference, see Duggan and Dean [1968] and Hunter and Schmidt [1997].
Notes
1 This material in this section relies heavily on a personal communication from Vance W. Berger and Costas A. Christophi.
2 Material in this section is from The Manager’s Guide to Design and Conduct ...
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