Comments on the importance of visualizing the distribution of pain-related data
- In a recent discussion on how to deal with data analysis issues initiated by reviewers of pain-related scientific manuscripts in the European Journal of Pain, a seemingly simple statistical issue was raised: two subsets of data in a paper had the same mean and standard deviation. A reviewer asked for a statistical test for or against the identity of the subset distributions. The authors insisted that if the mean and standard deviation were the same, this was sufficient evidence that the subsets of data were not significantly different. This prompted a discussion among pain researchers, who are not necessarily primarily from the field of data science, a discussion of the importance of carefully examining the distribution of pain-related data in a journal whose primary audience is pain researchers seems warranted...
| Author: | Jörn LötschORCiDGND, Alfred UltschGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-755812 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2135 |
| ISSN: | 1532-2149 |
| Parent Title (English): | European Journal of Pain |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publication: | Malden, Mass. [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/05/24 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/05/24 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/09/11 |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Page Number: | 7 |
| First Page: | 787 |
| Last Page: | 793 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 513136053 |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
