Sloppy stats shame science.

Scientific and medical journals are not the sort of places many mistakes are to be expected. Yet Emili García-Berthou and Carles Alcaraz, researchers at the University of Girona in Spain, have found that 38 percent of a sample of papers in "Nature," and a quarter of those sampled in the "British Med...

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Published in:	Economist Vol. 371; no. 8378; pp. 74 - 76
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited 6/5/2004
Subjects:	Scientific communication Error analysis in mathematics Quantitative research Periodicals Statistics Measurement errors Errors Medical research Publishing Research
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost