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Nature Medicine is known in the field for sometimes publishing studies with dubious statistical methods. It's a great journal in terms of metrics, but more oft
by nextos 4y ago
Nature Medicine is known in the field for sometimes publishing studies with dubious statistical methods.
It's a great journal in terms of metrics, but more often than not they publish things that look interesting but not very robust.
For example, most studies that do multivariate analyses (not applicable here) do not do partial pooling. Hence, they end up with inflated effect sizes.
Nature Genetics is also letting this happen all the time, which is annoying and leads to non-reproducible findings.