Questions tagged [reporting]
Guidelines for presenting results of a statistical analysis in a research manuscript, presentation, or for general public.
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Model comparison with different fixed effects - LMM
I tried to find answers to this, but couldn't manage to do so. So in my research, one of the main questions that I have is to assess the effects of these three food groups (milk, grain, and vegetables)...
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Pharmacy Exploratory Factor Analysis Help
I am a student working on designing a project and based off of past research trials, exploratory factor analysis within SPSS was desired. Only problem being, I have very little stats experience and ...
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Report Random Effects Linear-Mixed-Effects Model
According to Andy Field ("Discovering Statistics Using R") the Random Effect in a Linear Mixed Model should be reported like this:
"The relationship between surgery and quality of life ...
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Multiple thresholds for binary classification
This is a question about best practices for reporting on the performance of a binary classifier in the context of a scientific research paper. I'm unsure if this is the best community to post this ...
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CDC says median number of sexual partners a woman has is 4.3. How can this be?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/n-keystat.htm
According to the CDC, the median of the number of sexual partners a woman has is 4.3. But how can this be? The median can be 4, or 5, or ...
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Best way to report indirect effects in a complex Structural Equation Model (SEM) with a large number of variables and paths
I am fitting a complex structural equation model (SEM) with 4 latent and 2 observed variables (15 direct and 36 indirect effects). Importantly, in this model, some indirect effects from a given ...
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Reporting Hierarchical Regression Results in Abstract
I did a hierarchical regression test in a social science study looking at how two variables (A and B) and their interaction term can predict variable C. My mentor told me to write in the abstract that ...
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Which is correct for writing statstics in a sentence in APA style: zero or 0? One or 1? [closed]
Example:
The indicator variable equals one if both companies are located in the same country, and zero otherwise.
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The indicator variable equals 1 if both companies are located in the same ...
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Notation to report the measurement of a parameter
The estimation of a parameter ($p$) is customary reported in Physics and other fields with,
$ p = \hat{p} \pm \Delta p$,
where $\hat{p}$ is an estimator, and $[\hat{p} - \Delta p, \hat{p} + \Delta p]$ ...
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Can/should a scientific paper simultaneously perform one-sided hypothesis testing and a two-sided confidence interval?
Let's say you wish to perform a one-sided hypothesis test in which you want to reject $H_0: \Delta \leq 0$ in favor of $H_1: \Delta >0$. You select this hypothesis test specifically because you are ...
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Statistical Modelling Research Papers
My task was to make a logistic regression model for a dataset to predict a binary variable (0/1). During this process I went through all of the stages of model building, from scratch given unprocessed ...
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When is it appropriate to report the results of a within-subjects contrasts table of a repeated measures ANOVA?
I've just run a repeated measures ANOVA in SPSS, with one 3-level within-subjects variable, and one 3-level between-subjects variable.
Is it correct to assume that one should be reporting the main ...
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Report standard errors and exact p-value
Is it necessary to include both standard errors and exact $p$ values in a result table? Or is an exact $p$ value enough?
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Train/validate/test subsets of the data; which one do we use?
We are writing a scientific paper using a large dataset of healthcare data. We split our data into three sets: a train set (60%), a validation set (20%), and a test set (20%).
My question is what do ...
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How to report my log transformed (+1) data?
Say that I have a variable with lots of 0 values that needs log-transforming so I do log(variable+1) to transform it. How do I write that in my methods section as opposed to just 'the data was log-...
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The "detectseparation" package. How to interpret its results?
I am running a logistic regression on financial data of several companies. The dependent variable is the company to be a smoother (binary variable: 0, 1), and there are several independent variables: ...
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Mixed effects model for repeated measures approach in R
I'm using mixed effects models for repeated measures (MMRM) in R with the nlme package for the first time as part of a research project and have read lots of posts ...
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Reporting multinomial regression results to a non-stat audience
I would appreciate a little bit of advice on reporting. I've run a set of multinomial regression models, done my model testing, all that good stuff. Now I am waffling on how I want to report the ...
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How to report a difference in means - Demographics
First of all sorry for the question, I'm having a hard time with statistics :)
I have conducted a survey for my thesis and am currently analyzing and reporting the results. At the end of my survey, I ...
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Best approach to report multiple t-test results in an abstract
Abstracts require a comprehensive summary of a paper's contents, usually within a 150-250 word limit.
In my study, I used the paired t-test to compare the mean height of two groups from two different ...
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Most efficient way of converting a Quarto document to a presentation [closed]
I currently have a large body of statistics lecture notes that I wrote in Rmarkdown/Quarto document format, and I am looking to convert these notes to Quarto presentations in the simplest way possible....
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How to interpret interaction effects in a cox regression?
How would I interpret and report the highlighted boxes?
The variables:
Injury (0=uninjured, 1=injured)
Sex (0=male, 1=female)
Diet(1=10%EA, 2=50%EA, 3=100%EA, 4=150%EA, 5=200%EA)
(note: the “event” is ...
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Should I report df, SSQ, F and p, or should I report estimate, std error, t and p for my linear model?
Im using multiple linear models/regressions and wondering whats the best way to report a model in a scientific manuscript? I see so many versions. Should i go for the info in summary() or anova()? If ...
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What to report with the Kruskal Wallis?
I am analyzing a dataset, where I have 3 categories (independent variable), and one continuous value (dependent variable). I am studying if the continuous value is significantly different between the ...
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Good references on communicating the results of a statistical analysis to laypeople or non-expert stakeholders?
I was wondering if there were some good references on communicating the results of data/statistical analysis to stakeholders or laypeople.
I'm not looking necessarily for references related to data ...