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Guidelines for reporting statistical methods and analyses
| Reporting guidance provided for: | Name of guideline website (where available) | References including PMID |
|---|---|---|
| Statistical analyses and methods |
SAMPL |
T. A. Lang and D.G. Altman. Basic Statistical Reporting for Articles Published in Biomedical Journals: The “Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature” or The SAMPL Guidelines” in: Smart P, Maisonneuve H, Polderman A (eds). Science Editors' Handbook, European Association of Science Editors, 2013. The full text can be downloaded freely from: SAMPL Guidelines These guidelines will also appear in “Guidelines for reporting health research: A user’s manual," which will be released in early September 2013. |
| Bayesian analyses of health care evaluations | BayesWatch | Spiegelhalter DJ, Myles JP, Jones DR, Abrams KR. Bayesian methods in health technology assessment: a review. Health Technol Assess 2000; 4(38):1-130. |
| Bayesian analysis in clinical studies | ROBUST | Sung L, Hayden J, Greenberg ML, Koren G, Feldman BM, Tomlinson GA. Seven items were identified for inclusion when reporting a Bayesian analysis of a clinical study. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(3):261-268. PMID: 15718115 |
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Subgroup analysis in trials |
Wang R, Lagakos SW, Ware JH, Hunter DJ, Drazen JM. Statistics in medicine--reporting of subgroup analyses in clinical trials. N Engl J Med 2007 Nov 22;357(21):2189-94. PMID: 18032770 |
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| Heterogeneity in treatment effects in clinical trials |
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Kent DM, Rothwell PM, Ioannidis JP, Altman DG, Hayward RA. Assessing and reporting heterogeneity in treatment effects in clinical trials: a proposal. Trials 2010;11:85. PMID: 20704705 |
| Missing data in epidemiological and clinical research |
Sterne JA, White IR, Carlin JB, Spratt M, Royston P, Kenward MG, et al. Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls. BMJ 2009;338:b2393. PMID: 19564179 |
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| Multilevel modelling |
Jackson DL. Reporting results of latent growth modeling and multilevel modeling analyses: some recommendations for rehabilitation psychology. Rehabil Psychol. 2010;55(3):272-85. PMID: 20804271 |
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| Multivariable logistic regression in transplantation |
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Kalil AC, Mattei J, Florescu DF, Sun J, Kalil RS. Recommendations for the assessment and reporting of multivariable logistic regression in transplantation literature. Am J Transplant. 2010; 10(7):1686-94. PMID: 20642690 |
| Statistical results in case-controls design in neuropsychology |
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Crawford JR, Garthwaite PH, Porter S. Point and interval estimates of effect sizes for the case-controls design in neuropsychology: rationale, methods, implementations, and proposed reporting standards. Cogn Neuropsychol. 2010; 27(3):245-60. PMID: 20936548 |
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