Editorial Board, European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Diseases, Elsevier ed., 92130, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France; Université Paris Centre, 75006, Paris, France.
Editorial Board, European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Diseases, Elsevier ed., 92130, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France; Université Aix Marseille, 31284, Marseille, France.
Eur Ann Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Dis. 2021 Mar;138(2):89-92. doi: 10.1016/j.anorl.2020.06.015. Epub 2020 Jul 4.
To evaluate biostatistics in scientific articles published in the European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Diseases.
Retrospective analysis of 76 scientific articles published in 2018 and 2019. The main goal was to describe the percentage of articles using biostatistics and to explore for potential associations with the article's main characteristics. Secondary goals were, within the group of articles using statistical tests, to describe the type of statistics used, the assessment of normality in case of comparison of mean values, the p-value threshold for significance, the use of confidence intervals, and power analysis.
Statistics were used in 73.7% of articles, without any significant association with main characteristics. Within the group of articles using statistics, the tests used were parametric, non-parametric and not specified in 77.7%, 51.4% and 1.8% of cases, respectively. Normality was checked in 14.2% of article using parametric tests to evaluate mean values. The p-value significance threshold was set at .05, .01, .005 levels and not defined in 60.7%, 1.8%, 1.8% and 35.7% of articles, respectively, while confidence intervals and power analyses were documented in 10.7% and 5.3%, respectively.
This article underlines the need for better use of statistics in the European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Diseases, to improve the quality of scientific articles published in the organ of written expression of the French and International French-speaking Societies of Otorhinolaryngology, and to support the ongoing move toward better medical science.
评估发表在《欧洲耳鼻喉科学杂志》上的科学文章中的生物统计学。
对 2018 年和 2019 年发表的 76 篇科学文章进行回顾性分析。主要目标是描述使用生物统计学的文章的百分比，并探讨与文章主要特征的潜在关联。次要目标是，在使用统计检验的文章组中，描述使用的统计类型、在比较平均值时的正态性评估、显著性 p 值阈值、置信区间的使用和功效分析。
统计学在 73.7%的文章中得到了应用，与主要特征没有显著关联。在使用统计学的文章组中，分别有 77.7%、51.4%和 1.8%的文章使用了参数、非参数和未指定的检验。在使用参数检验评估平均值的文章中，有 14.2%的文章检查了正态性。显著性 p 值阈值分别设定为.05、.01、.005 水平，在 60.7%、1.8%、1.8%和 35.7%的文章中未定义，置信区间和功效分析分别记录在 10.7%和 5.3%的文章中。
本文强调了在《欧洲耳鼻喉科学杂志》中更好地使用统计学的必要性，以提高法国和国际法语耳鼻喉科学学会书面表达器官发表的科学文章的质量，并支持向更好的医学科学发展的持续努力。
