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Society Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalised, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of man. [Francis Galton (Z)] Douglas Altman begins his section of an excellent new publication Statistics in Practice (1) with the above quotation. He then goes on to say: Stated simply, it is unethical to carry out bad scientific experiments. Statistical methods are one aspect of this. However praiseworthy a study may be from other points of view, if the statistical aspects are substandard then the research will be unethical. There are two principal reasons for this. Firstly, the obvious way in which a study may be deemed unethical, whether on statistical or other grounds, in the misuse of patients (or animals) and other resources . . . Secondly, however, statistics affects the ethics in a much more specific way: It is unethical to publish results that.
AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology – The American Physiological Society
Published: Jan 1, 1983
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