Sloppy Statistics Mar Papers

摘要

TECHNICAL JOURNALS play a crucial role in the effective communication of experimental results. So, publication of accurate information is paramount. Unfortunately, some journals choose content based on inadequate peer reviewing or without any real evaluation. (See "Hoax Highlights Publishing Problem," http://goo.gl/Hbdnqx.) Now, an investigation by a team at Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands, has found that many of the papers they checked have statistical mistakes.