Beck-Bornholdt H P, Dubben H H
Institut für Biophysik und Strahlenbiologie, Universität Hamburg.
Strahlenther Onkol. 2000 Aug;176(8):344-9. doi: 10.1007/pl00002341.
The statistical quality of the contributions to "Strahlentherapie und Onkologie" is assessed, aiming for improvement of the journal and consequently its impact factor.
All 181 articles published during 1998 and 1999 in the categories "review", "original contribution", and "short communication" were analyzed concerning the appropriate use of multiple tests.
One hundred and four publications were excluded from analysis, because they did not contain quantitative data or because no or only 1 statistical test was performed. In 77 publications multiple tests were done which was adequately considered in only 3 of these papers, corresponding to a fraction of 4% (95% CI: 0.8 to 11%).
Authors, peer reviewers, and editors could contribute to improve the quality of the journal by setting value on correction for multiple tests.
评估《放射治疗与肿瘤学》投稿的统计学质量,旨在改进该期刊并进而提高其影响因子。
分析了1998年和1999年发表在“综述”“原创性论文”和“简短通讯”类别中的所有181篇文章,以了解多重检验的恰当使用情况。
104篇出版物被排除在分析之外,原因是它们不包含定量数据,或者未进行任何统计检验或仅进行了1次统计检验。在77篇出版物中进行了多重检验,但其中只有3篇论文对其进行了充分考虑,占比为4%(95%可信区间:0.8%至11%)。
作者、同行评审人员和编辑可通过重视多重检验的校正来提高该期刊的质量。