re: st: Error bars

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 13:10 22/04/04 -0500, David Airey wrote:
I'm not surprised.

> Reporting of statistical results in biological sciences in Nature and 
> Science is often incomplete.
>
> In the USA, the APA makes it more clear to researchers what is expected of 
> them when reporting on statistical results in the area of Psychology:
>
> http://www.apa.org/books/4200060.html
>
> A similar guide needs to be available for the biological sciences if they 
> don't want to use the APA's guide. I'm unaware of one. Certainly Medicine 
> must have one? Please inform me if you know what I don't.
A good place to start is

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0727913751/qid=1082660828/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/202-8855304-7853434

which points the way to Altman et al. (2000).

Roger

References

Douglas Altman (Editor), David Machin (Editor), Trevor Bryant (Editor), 
Martin Gardner (Editor).
Statistics with Confidence. 2000; Oxford: BMJ books


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