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During the last decades numerous articles were published dealing with the bad quality of biomedical statistics. However, most of the relevant chapters confine themselves to describe misunderstandings, misinterpretations and misuses of statistical methods. In contrast, in this chapter it is argued that the bad quality of biomedical statistics is also due to the statistical methodology and statistical methods themselves. This claim is illustrated by several examples. Special emphasize is laid on significance testing the most often applied statistical method in biostatistics. This chapter aims at raising the awareness of the statistical community for what is going on in medicine and hoping that this will lead to some fundamentals improvements in statistics. |
