Title: Can we trust “Magnitude-based inference”?
Authors: Nevill, Alan M.; Williams, A. Mark; Boreham, Colin; Wallace, Eric S.; Davison, Gareth W.; Abt, Grant; Lane, Andrew M.; Winter, Edward M.
Abstract: The article reports on controversy created by magnitude-based inference (MBI) when reporting the results of studies. Statistician Kristin Sainani was concerned about the consequences of using MBI that she wrote a formal analysis of the MBI method. Declaring that many interventions work when they do not is said to be unacceptable to editors and practitioners. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise decided not to accept for publication papers that use MBI.
Subjects: CONFIDENCE intervals; DECISION making; PROBABILITY theory; STATISTICS; SAMPLE size (Statistics); DATA analysis; RESEARCH bias
Publication: Journal of Sports Sciences, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 24, p2769
ISSN: 0264-0414
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2018.1516004

Can we trust “Magnitude-based inference”?

Nevill, Alan M.; Williams, A. Mark; Boreham, Colin; Wallace, Eric S.; Davison, Gareth W.; Abt, Grant; Lane, Andrew M.; Winter, Edward M.