‘Ghost’ statisticians exert unseen influence

Pharmaceutical employees are going uncredited on medical papers.

When a scientific study is paid for by a company with commercial interests, journals take great care to ensure that this information is properly disclosed. But are all the possible sources of bias being reported? A study released today shows that the statisticians in charge of crunching, and sometimes selecting, the data in a study often go uncredited, making their influence impossible to trace.

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‘Ghost’ statisticians exert unseen influence

Pharmaceutical employees are going uncredited on medical papers.

When a scientific study is paid for by a company with commercial interests, journals take great care to ensure that this information is properly disclosed. But are all the possible sources of bias being reported? A study released today shows that the statisticians in charge of crunching, and sometimes selecting, the data in a study often go uncredited, making their influence impossible to trace.

Read the story here.

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