Basic statistical considerations for physiology: The journal Temperature toolbox.

ABSTRACT: The average environmental and occupational physiologist may find statistics are difficult to interpret and use since their formal training in statistics is limited. Unfortunately, poor statistical practices can generate erroneous or at least misleading results and distorts the evidence in the scientific literature. These problems are exacerbated when statistics are used as thoughtless ritual that is performed after the data are collected. The situation is worsened when statistics are then treated as strict judgements about the data (i.e., significant versus non-significant) without a thought given to how these statistics were calculated or their practical meaning. We propose that researchers should consider statistics at every step of the research process whether that be the designing of e

SUBMITTER: Caldwell AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6773229 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature