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ArticleNeuroImage2013

Ironing out the statistical wrinkles in "ten ironic rules".

Martin A Lindquist, Brian Caffo, Ciprian Crainiceanu

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Article in NeuroImage, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Martin A LindquistDepartment of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Electronic address: mlindqui@jhsph.edu.
Brian CaffoDepartment of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Ciprian CrainiceanuDepartment of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Funding

TR&D 4: Algorithms for functional and anatomical brain analysisP41EB015909 · NIBIB · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI VAN ZIJL, PETER CM · 2012 to 2020
$13.1M
Statistical Methods for Multilevel Multivariate Functional StudiesR01NS060910 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Ciprian M Crainiceanu · 2009 to 2026
$8.3M
Longitudinal Causal Inferencer for fMRIR01EB016061 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LINDQUIST, MARTIN · 2013 to 2020
$2.3M
Statistical methods for large n and p problemsR01EB012547 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CAFFO, BRIAN SCOTT · 2010 to 2016
$2.1M
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015909NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB012547NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB016061NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS060910Wellcome Trust 088130
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The article "Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers" (Friston, 2012) shares some commonly heard frustrations about the peer-review process that all researchers can identify with. Though we found the article amusing, we have some concerns about its description of a number of statistical issues. In this commentary we address these issues, as well as the premise of the article.

Indexed as

NeuroimagingResearch DesignPeer Review, ResearchStatistics as Topic

Identifiers

PMID23587691
PMCPMC3730443

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