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Statistical flaw trips up study of bad stats

Jim Giles

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Experts disagree over reanalysis of original data.

When two Spanish researchers checked the statistics in scientific papers from the BMJ and Nature in 2004, their results prompted a flurry of headlines and soul-searching for editors."Sloppy stats shame science" ran the headline in The Economist.