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Null hypothesis significance testing: a guide to commonly misunderstood concepts and recommendations for good practice [version 4; referees: 2 approved, 2 not approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Although thoroughly criticized, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) remains the statistical method of choice used to provide evidence for an effect, in biological, biomedical and social sciences.
Cyril Pernet
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Early life adiposity and telomere length across the life course: a systematic review and meta-analysis [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2018
Background: The relationship between adiposity at birth and in childhood, and telomere length is yet to be determined. We aimed to systematically review and meta-analyse the results of studies assessing associations between neonatal and later childhood ...
Anna L. Guyatt, Santiago Rodriguez, Tom R. Gaunt, Abigail Fraser, Emma L. Anderson   +4 more
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The ACCE method: an approach for obtaining quantitative or qualitative estimates of residual confounding that includes unmeasured confounding [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/54j]

F1000Research, 2015
Background:  Nonrandomized studies typically cannot account for confounding from unmeasured factors.    Method:  A method is presented that exploits the recently-identified phenomenon of  “confounding amplification” to produce, in principle, a ...
Eric G. Smith
doaj   +1 more source

Developing sustainable software solutions for bioinformatics by the “Butterfly” paradigm [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/40q]

F1000Research, 2014
Software design and sustainable software engineering are essential for the long-term development of bioinformatics software. Typical challenges in an academic environment are short-term contracts, island solutions, pragmatic approaches and loose ...
Zeeshan Ahmed, Saman Zeeshan, Thomas Dandekar   +2 more
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Student feedback about the use of role plays in Sparshanam, a medical humanities module [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/SWKxOt]

F1000Research, 2012
Background: At KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal, a Medical Humanities module for first year medical students has been conducted. Role plays are used to explore social, medical and sexual issues in the Nepalese context.
P Ravi Shankar, Rano M Piryani, Kundan K Singh, Bal Man S Karki   +3 more
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The ACCE method: an approach for obtaining quantitative or qualitative estimates of residual confounding [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/3yd]

F1000Research, 2014
Background:  Nonrandomized studies typically cannot account for confounding from unmeasured factors.    Method:  A method is presented that exploits the recently-identified phenomenon of  “confounding amplification” to produce, in principle, a ...
Eric G. Smith
doaj   +1 more source

Rival perspectives in health technology assessment and other economic evaluations for investing in global and national health. Who decides? Who pays? [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2018
There seems to be a general agreement amongst practitioners of economic evaluations, including Health Technology Assessment, that the explicit statement of a perspective is a necessary element in designing and reporting research.
Anthony Culyer, Kalipso Chalkidou, Yot Teerawattananon, Benjarin Santatiwongchai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health communication, information technology and the public’s attitude toward periodic general health examinations [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2016
Background: Periodic general health examinations (GHEs) are gradually becoming more popular as they employ subclinical screenings, as a means of early detection.
Quan-Hoang Vuong
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On the interpretability and computational reliability of frequency-domain Granger causality [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
This Correspondence article is a comment which directly relates to the paper “A study of problems encountered in Granger causality analysis from a neuroscience perspective” (Stokes and Purdon, 2017).
Luca Faes, Sebastiano Stramaglia, Daniele Marinazzo   +2 more
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Null hypothesis significance testing: a guide to commonly misunderstood concepts and recommendations for good practice [version 5; referees: 2 approved, 2 not approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Although thoroughly criticized, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) remains the statistical method of choice used to provide evidence for an effect, in biological, biomedical and social sciences.
Cyril Pernet
doaj   +1 more source