Issues with data and analyses. Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions

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2021
Critical appraisal
Published

March 20, 2021

One of my students showed me this paper. It looks at errors in research and tries to array them into a broad set of themes. This is a very ambitious effort and, at first glance, it looks like a logical organization.

Andrew W. Brown, Kathryn A. Kaiser, David B. Allison. Issues with data and analyses: Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions. Brown, Andrew W et al. Issues with data and analyses: Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 115,11 (2018): 2563-2570. doi:10.1073/pnas.1708279115. Available in html format or pdf format.

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