Peer review of statistics in medical research: the other problem
Peer review of statistics in medical research: the other problem
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10.1136/bmj.324.7348.1271
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2002-05-25
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Bacchetti, P
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Bacchetti, P
Peer review has long been criticised for failing to identify flaws in research. Here Peter Bacchetti argues that it is also guilty of the opposite: finding flaws that are not thereThe process of peer review before publication has long been criticised for failing to prevent the publication of statistics that are wrong, unclear, or suboptimal. 1 2 My concern here, however, is not with failing to find flaws, but with the complementary problem of finding flaws that are not really there.