Fear or favour? Statistics in pathology

摘要

If we are to have a new year's resolution for sta- tistics in pathology let it be that we will use unbiased sample selection methods which are fully reported, perform power calculations, and present results with confidence intervals. In this way we can ensure that we are selecting and interpreting our data without fear or favour of being misled by biased samples or mystical p values. Conclusions based solely on the latter should be d valued forthwith.