All The Old Showstoppers
Now is the time of the month when I have to look at “the numbers” to see how things are going on Nature Protocols and Protocol Exchange. Since I was doing that anyway I thought I’d share some with you....
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Facts and figures – treat with caution
Dr David Barlow is Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine at St Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospitals, London. He has been the lead author for the chapter on gonorrhoea in the last three editions of the Oxford...
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Let’s give statistics the attention it deserves
This month we launch a new column ‘Points of Significance’ devoted to statistics, a topic of profound importance for biological research, but one that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves....
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Bring on the box plots
Box plots are excellent for visualizing important core statistics of sample data. We hope that a new online plotting tool BoxPlotR will help encourage their wider use in basic biological research. The...
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What makes a Nature Genetics paper?
In the editorial published in the current issue of Nature Genetics, we draw attention to the development and implementation of community standards for biomedical publications. We also note that we will...
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The elephant in the lab
Young researchers should take the time to educate themselves on STEM career-related statistics. Contributor Robert Aboukhalil Like many PhD students in their fourth year, there are two things...
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Seeking out stronger science: An incomplete, non-systematic list of resources
Our reporter Monya Baker runs through some of the statistical tools she found when writing her latest story. As I reported in a Nature feature published this week, I found more online courses that were...
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Thinking of a PhD? This is the Australian story
Advice for prospective PhD candidates focuses on career prospects in R&D, but more thought should be given to personal aspirations in life and work. Research is fuelled by the energy of...
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From the archives (1995): Guidelines for interpreting and reporting linkage...
In 1995, Nature Genetics published a report by Eric Lander and Leonid Kruglyak, recommending clear statistical guidelines for reporting linkage results for complex traits. The paper had an immediate...
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