# Statistics series in medical/public health/epi journals

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I’m aware of the “Statistics Notes” series in the BMJ ([https://www.bmj.com/specialties/statistics-notes](https://www.bmj.com/specialties/statistics-notes)), and I’m pretty sure that other medical/public health/epi journals have run similar series over the years, but I don’t know how to find them. If you know of other series, would you list them here, even if the journal doesn’t (yet) maintain a consolidated list of the articles the way BMJ does?

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**Author:** ![James\_Stanley](https://discourse.datamethods.org/user_avatar/discourse.datamethods.org/james_stanley/32/1668_2.png) [@James\_Stanley](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/James_Stanley)\
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I’ve been tracking several of these in the bigger journals for our local methods journal club.

Navigation for these pages isn’t always that well set up (many don’t seem to have a direct link to the specific section section) so many of these links below are to search functions on the journal pages (and can be a bit broader than the exact series). In case a caveat is needed, I haven’t appraised all of these!

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Part A: Statistics series that specifically exist for pedagogical purposes.

1. **BMJ Statistics Notes** : Martin Bland’s webpage lists all articles up to 2018 listed in chronological order on a single page [(link to Statistics Notes on one page)](https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/pubs/pbstnote.htm). These link through to the BMJ journal pages themselves. This is easier to navigate than the BMJ page (which only lists six articles per page!)

2. **JAMA Statistics and Methods** which are usually two PDF pages, with a worked example. The ones I have read generally go into more detail than the BMJ Statistics Notes. [(JAMA search-specific link)](https://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?q=%22guide%20to%20statistics%20and%20methods%22&allJournals=1&SearchSourceType=1&exPrm_qqq=%7b!payloadDisMaxQParser%20pf=Tags%20qf=Tags%5e0.0000001%20payloadFields=Tags%20bf=%7d%22%22guide%20to%20statistics%20and%20methods%22%22&exPrm_hl.q=%22guide%20to%20statistics%20and%20methods%22)

3. **New England Journal of Medicine Statistics in Medicine** series: note the following link is to their “Medical statistics” topic, which is broader than just this series, so I haven’t really worked out how many papers are in this series. [(link to NEJM topic page for Medical Statistics)](https://www.nejm.org/medical-research/medical-statistics)

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Part B. Series for epidemiology-focused methods (I totally appreciate the arbitrary boundary between epidemiology and statistics for much of this material!)

1. International Journal of Epidemiology “Education corner” [IJE search-specific link](https://academic.oup.com/ije/search-results?page=1&q=&f_TocHeadingTitle=Education+Corner&fl_SiteID=5299&qb=%7b%22q%22:%22%22%7d)

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Part C. Other searchable methods series

There are a couple of Epidemiology journals that have methods-specific sections as well, though this isn’t quite what you were asking for: I’m just listing these here as I had them to hand.

1. American journal of Epidemiology [(link to AJE “Practice of Epidemiology”)](https://academic.oup.com/aje/search-results?page=1&q=&f_TocHeadingTitle=PRACTICE+OF+EPIDEMIOLOGY&fl_SiteID=5257&qb=%7b%22q%22:%22%22%7d)

2. International Journal of Epidemiology [(link to IJE Methods focused papers)](https://academic.oup.com/ije/search-results?page=1&q=&f_TocHeadingTitle=Methodology&fl_SiteID=5299&qb=%7b%22q%22:%22%22%7d)

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This is so helpful— thank you!

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That is an awesome list James thanks for sharing.

I’d like to also mention David Streiner who has published scores papers that are tutorials and methodological commentary.

He has a link to a pre-formatted PubMED search on his bio at [https://psychiatry.mcmaster.ca/directory/bio/david-l.-streiner](https://psychiatry.mcmaster.ca/directory/bio/david-l.-streiner)

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One more collection from IJE: [IJE Bias in Epidemiology series](https://academic.oup.com/ije/pages/Bias-in-epidemiology)

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology  
Series: [Key Concepts in Clinical Epidemiology](https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(20)31143-4/fulltext)

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The European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) also ran a series of primer articles a while back:

> **[Statistical Primers](https://academic.oup.com/ejcts/pages/statistical-primers)**
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> Careful statistical analyses are key both to the preparation of a successful paper and to a proper understanding of evidence-based medicine.  
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> Our St

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Adding one more:

- **[Nature Points of Significance](https://www.nature.com/collections/qghhqm/pointsofsignificance)**: originally a monthly column in Nature methods, but the contributions have somewhat slowed over the years. Quite some topics have been covered and some bigger topics stretch over 2-4 separate columns each about 1-3 pages long.

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At some point I will come back to edit the earlier item and add these additional suggestions to keep a list in one place… very interesting to see these additional ones too.

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[Research, Methods, Statistics | JAMA Network](https://jamanetwork.com/collections/5916/research-methods-statistics)

I could not find the JAMA link to be working, so have attached a link that I used.

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Thanks for the note re: broken link – I think the JAMA search engine might have changed.

I think I’ve found the “correct” collection header now for this series:

> **[Guide to Statistics and Medicine](https://jamanetwork.com/collections/44042/guide-to-statistics-and-medicine)**
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> Explore this JAMA essay series that explains statistical techniques in clinical research to help clinicians interpret and critically appraise the medical literature.

(this returns the 5 pages of results for the Guide… series, whereas the Research, Methods, Statistics link picks up something like 174 pages of results!)

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As a p.s. could someone with appropriate permissions please make a wiki of the first reply from me above? ([Statistics series in medical/public health/epi journals - #2 by James\_Stanley](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/statistics-series-in-medical-public-health-epi-journals/4034/2))? Then I (and others) can add additional links and fix any broken ones.

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The AHA recently presented a statistical statement regarding best practice. Here is a link to that:

[Recommendations for Statistical Reporting in Cardiovascular Medicine: A Special Report From the American Heart Association (ahajournals.org)](https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055393)

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/statistics-series-in-medical-public-health-epi-journals/4034/16 "2022-01-11T13:38:46Z")

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> [@salil09](#):
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> Recommendations for Statistical Reporting in Cardiovascular Medicine: A Special Report From the American Heart Association ([ahajournals.org](http://ahajournals.org))

This is a truly excellent paper, except for implying that propensity score matching is a good idea.