Statistical Malpractice

Statistical malpractice is an insidious, and indeed prestige-laden and grant-rewarded, activity. Brilliantly clever, but fundamentally wrong-headed, number-crunchers are encouraged to devise inappropriate applications of mathematical methods to health problems. This species of misdirected zealot has...

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Autor principal: Charlton, Bruce G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1996
Materias:
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8709054
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description Statistical malpractice is an insidious, and indeed prestige-laden and grant-rewarded, activity. Brilliantly clever, but fundamentally wrong-headed, number-crunchers are encouraged to devise inappropriate applications of mathematical methods to health problems. This species of misdirected zealot has so far been immune from criticism.
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spelling pubmed-54015282019-01-22 Statistical Malpractice Charlton, Bruce G J R Coll Physicians Lond Forum Statistical malpractice is an insidious, and indeed prestige-laden and grant-rewarded, activity. Brilliantly clever, but fundamentally wrong-headed, number-crunchers are encouraged to devise inappropriate applications of mathematical methods to health problems. This species of misdirected zealot has so far been immune from criticism. Royal College of Physicians of London 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC5401528/ /pubmed/8709054 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1996 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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