Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Kass, Robert E ^a   Caffo, Brian S ^b   Davidian, Marie ^c   Meng, Xiao Li ^d   Yu, Bin ^e   Reid, Nancy ^f  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIMPLE++;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDITORIAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACCURACY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84978818608     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004961     Document Type: Editorial

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