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Statistics and animals in biomedical research
Author(s) -
Festing Michael
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00459.x
Subject(s) - blinding , statistics , government (linguistics) , measure (data warehouse) , statistical analysis , computer science , psychology , medline , mathematics , biology , data mining , philosophy , biochemistry , linguistics
A UK government‐sponsored review 1 has found that out of 271 randomly chosen papers reporting experiments on laboratory animals only 59% stated the objective of the study and the number of animals used. Most did not use randomisation or blinding, and only 70% of the publications that used statistical methods gave their methods and a measure of error. Michael Festing , one of the authors of the review, wants better statistics in animal experiments.