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. 2019 Mar;201(3):595-604.
doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000000001.

Guidelines for Reporting of Statistics for Clinical Research in Urology

Melissa Assel  1 , Daniel Sjoberg  1 , Andrew Elders  2 , Xuemei Wang  3 , Dezheng Huo  4 , Albert Botchway  5 , Kristin Delfino  5 , Yunhua Fan  6 , Zhiguo Zhao  7 , Tatsuki Koyama  8 , Brent Hollenbeck  9 , Rui Qin  10 , Whitney Zahnd  11 , Emily C Zabor  1 , Michael W Kattan  7 , Andrew J Vickers  1
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Guidelines for Reporting of Statistics for Clinical Research in Urology

Melissa Assel et al. J Urol. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

In an effort to improve the quality of statistics in the clinical urology literature, statisticians at European Urology, The Journal of Urology, Urology and BJUI came together to develop a set of guidelines to address common errors of statistical analysis, reporting and interpretation. Authors should “break any of the guidelines if it makes scientific sense to do so” but would need to provide a clear justification. Adoption of the guidelines will in our view not only increase the quality of published papers in our journals but improve statistical knowledge in our field in general.

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Conflicts of interest: The authors have nothing to disclose.

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