Reporting statistical results
R. J. Wootton, J. F. Craig · Journal of Fish Biology · 2011
Reporting statistical resultsThis editorial draws attention to an initiative of The Physiological Society, which has commissioned a series of articles on best practice in statistical reporting in life science journals.The articles are published in the two journals of The Physiological Society, Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology.Other journals including the British Journal of Pharmacology and Advances in Physiology Education are joining this project.In an earlier initiative, The American Physiological Society published guidelines for the reporting of statistical results (Curran-Everett & Benos, 2004, 2007).These guidelines have partly influenced the section on reporting statistical results in the latest version of Instructions for Authors for the Journal of Fish Biology.In Curran-Everett & Benos (2004), 10 guidelines are provided and these are listed below with some commentary.