Statisticians, Roll Up Your Sleeves! There's A Crisis to be Solved

2021/07/28 by Heidi Seibold, Alethea Charlton, Anne‐Laure Boulesteix +1 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Data Analysis with R #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

paper · doi:10.1111/1740-9713.01554

openalex publication_date 2021/07/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

Abstract Statisticians play a key role in almost all scientific research. As such, they may be key to solving the reproducibility crisis. Heidi Seibold, Alethea Charlton, Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Sabine Hoffmann urge statisticians to take an active role in promoting more credible science

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Discussions

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