By: Björn
E-learning tools and MOOCs
April 22, 2016E-learning platforms and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are picking up momentum in popularity and are an emerging new model for…
Read MorePublications April 2016
April 22, 2016Statement on Statistical Significance and P-values. The world’s largest professional association of statisticians, the American Statistical Association, has made a public…
Read MoreY47 Partnership
April 22, 2016PAASP services aim to identify areas that need improvement and to provide our clients with the necessary tools. We believe that…
Read MoreIn search of the mechanisms of ketamine’s antidepressant effects: How robust is the evidence behind the mTor activation hypothesis
April 11, 2016Intravenous ketamine has been repeatedly shown to induce a rapid and long-lasting antidepressant effect in treatment-resistant patients. A 2010 Science paper…
Read MoreStatement on Statistical Significance and P-values
March 21, 2016The world’s largest professional association of statisticians, the American Statistical Association, has made a public statement regarding the use of P-values…
Read MoreWhen Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis
March 21, 2016In this article written by Scannell and Bosley, the contrast between increased costs for drug discovery and the decreased success rate…
Read MoreAdditional Reads in March 2016
March 20, 2016Robust science needs robust corrections. David Allison and his colleagues argue that mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard…
Read MorePresented data do not always support conclusions made in a paper
March 20, 2016We will continue presenting Case Study publications that have received a lot of interest among the scientific community (and sometimes even in mass…
Read MoreRetraction analysis: Can GSP governance make a difference?
March 20, 2016During the past decade, the number of retractions increased dramatically, even when normalized by the total number of articles published in…
Read MoreWhat do people mean when saying that studies were done in a blinded fashion?
March 20, 2016We have evaluated blinding procedures at 12 academic labs, 7 contract research organisations (CROs), and 4 industrial pharmacology labs and obtained…
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