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Interview with Dr. Jonas Ranstam
The irreproducibility problem is serious, but it is also misunderstood
Dr. Jonas Ranstam, a medical statistician, was the overall winner of the Sentinels of Science Awards (2016). He was affiliated with several institutions, including Lund University, Sweden, as Professor and senior lecturer of medical statistics and is currently an independent statistics consultant. He is also deputy editor of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, statistical editor for British Journal of Surgery, a statistics consultant for Acta Orthopaedica, and a statistical reviewer for several international scientific medical journals. Dr. Ranstam also maintains the Statistical Mistakes blog, which focuses on systematic reviews of statistical mistakes in medical research and presents references to literature describing how to avoid such mistakes.
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Feb 21, 2017
Learning how to perform a review should be part of the PhD training
Dr. Jonas Ranstam, a medical statistician, was the overall winner of the Sentinels of Science Awards (2016). He was affiliated with several institutions, including Lund University, Sweden, as Professor and senior lecturer of medical statistics and is currently an independent statistics consultant. He is also deputy editor of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, statistical editor for British Journal of Surgery, a statistics consultant for Acta Orthopaedica, and a statistical reviewer for several international scientific medical journals. Dr. Ranstam also maintains the Statistical Mistakes blog, which focuses on systematic reviews of statistical mistakes in medical research and presents references to literature describing how to avoid such mistakes.
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Mar 14, 2017
