How should we achieve high-quality reporting of statistics in scientific journals? A commentary on “Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society”

Abstract

some disturbing news was reported in the March 2005 issue of Significance , a publication of the Royal Statistical Society ([7][1]). Based on a variety of audits, it was found that 38% of the articles published in 2001 in Nature contained some statistical “incongruence”: a disparity between