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. 2021 Jan;55(2):118-122.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102607. Epub 2020 Aug 19.

Call to increase statistical collaboration in sports science, sport and exercise medicine and sports physiotherapy

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Call to increase statistical collaboration in sports science, sport and exercise medicine and sports physiotherapy

Kristin L Sainani et al. Br J Sports Med. 2021 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: methodology; statistical review; statistics.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Flowchart of the article search and inclusion for the systematic review.
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Percentage of data-containing articles in quartile one sports science journals that include at least one coauthor affiliated with a statistics or other methodologically-oriented department (from our systematic review, n=299). Statistics includes biostatistics, statistics, data science and data analytics departments; epidemiology includes authors from departments of community health, population health, health or public health if they are trained as epidemiologists or statisticians; computer science includes information technology department.

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