SAMPL (Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature) guidelines

The above site provides a link to Lang and Altman’s 2013 book chapter ‘Basic Statistical Reporting for Articles Published in Biomedical Journals: The “Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature” or “The SAMPL Guidelines”, which lists the SAMPL guidelines. These guidelines are intended to mitigate the errors in reporting of statistical findings, and in drawing conclusions from these findings, which arise in medical journals, including high reputation journals. It is noteworthy that the authors draw attention to the particular need for applying such guidelines within the context of more simple analyses. In so doing, they recognize that the greater proportion of issues in these cases may arise from the non-involvement of a statistician in drawing seemingly simple or obvious conclusions from basic or accessible analyses.

The StatsforMedics page PRESENTING THE FINDINGS AND CONLUSIONS OF STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTS should also provide helpful, including when deciding how to interpret your results soundly when p > 0.05.

Reporting statistical findings by Margaret MacDougall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.