Health Education Research, Vol. 14, No. 6, 713-715,
December 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Getting past the statistical referee: moving away from P-values and towards interval estimation
Sheffield Children's Hospital, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK
The earth is round (P < 0.05) (Cohen, 1994
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The increased involvement of statisticians in the peer review process has lead to a greater communication between statisticians and journal editors (Marks et al., 1988). Despite this, the quality of statistical reporting in many scientific journals remains below par. Statistical errors are commonplace and the problem appears to be long-lasting [see, e.g. (Schor and Karten, 1966; Feinstein, 1974; Gore et al., 1977; White, 1979; Glantz, 1980; Altman, 1982; Bland and Altman, 1987; Pocock et al., 1987)]. The main problem for the researcher would appear to be a lack of understanding of even the most basic of statistics (Mathews and McPherson, 1987). Part of the blame has been apportioned to poor statistical teaching (Rigby, 1998); others blame lack of interest by the researcher (Mathews and
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