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Specific guide to this web site for:
1. Medical
School
Educators
in
Statistics
2. Medical Students
3. Science media writers
4. High School & College
Statistic Teachers
Misadventures:
1. Harvard led MI study
2. JACC
study
(J. of Amer. Coll.
Cardio.)
3. NEJM
cath study
4. Amer. J. of Cardio.
review of literature
5. ALLHAT
controversy
6. Oat bran study
7. Pregnancy & Alcohol
8. Are Geminis
really
different?
9. Columbia 'Miracle' Study
Additional
Topics:
Celebrex
Limitations of Meta-Analyses
Large Randomized Clinical
Trials
Tale of Two Large
Trials
Advocate
meta-analyses
Network
meta-analyses
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Dan G. McNamara, M.D.
Chief Emeritus
Pediatric Cardiology Department
JACC Editorial Board Member
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
November 5, 1990
Eric Roehm, M.D., Cardiology
2300 Round Rock Ave., Suite 204
Round Rock
,
TX
78681
Dear Dr. Roehm:
Thank you for your letter of
October 17, regarding the statistical analysis in the article by Geltman, et al,
in JACC, September, 1990. I think your point is well taken. I, for one, appreciate very much your bringing this to the attention of
the editorial board.
I am certainly not as well
versed in statistics as you seem to be, and thus, it is my custom in reviewing a
paper in which statistical analysis is an important component of study to pass
the paper along to a statistician for their review.
I know that Dr. Dack commonly does this himself.
In this particular case, it does
not seem, however, that one need to be an expert in statistics to understand the
fallacy of the reasoning behind it.
I am sure that you will hear from Dr. Dack and others on the editorial board.
Sincerely yours,
Dan G. McNamara, M.D.,
Chief
Emeritus
Pediatric Cardiology Department
Baylor
College
of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
cc: Simon Dack, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of
American
College
of
Cardiology
Vanderbilt
Avenue
New York
,
NY
10017
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