Ophthalmic Statistics Group’s BJO articles available online
22 February 2016
The Ophthalmic Statistics Group (OSG)
This network of medical statisticians, with a common interest in ophthalmic research, came together with a collective desire to raise statistical standards in ophthalmic research. They have held a number of events to engage with ophthalmologists and others involved in ophthalmic research starting with a workshop at the Annual Congress in 2015, and more recently the very successful seminar on study design and approaches to statistical analysis at The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, which proved so popular that it will most probably be repeated next year.
In 2013 The OSG were commissioned to write a set of statistical notes for the BJO, which provide an excellent description of some important considerations relating to the analysis and interpretation of ophthalmic data.
You can access these articles through the links below:
| Ophthalmic statistics note: Number and title | Link to BJO article |
| 1: Unit of analysis | March 2014, Volume 98, Issue 3; online 19/12/2013 |
| 2: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence | May 2014, Volume 98, Issue 5;online 3/03/2014 |
| 3: The perils of dichotomising continuous variables | June 2014, Volume 98, Issue 6:online 28/03/2014 |
| 4: Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow-up measurements | November 2014, Volume 98, Issue 11: online 07/08/2014 |
| 5: Comparing diagnostic tests – Sensitivity and Specificity | September 2015, Volume 99, Issue 9 |
| 6: Effect sizes matter | May 2015, Volume 99, Issue 5:online 26 February 2015 |
| 7: Multiple hypothesis testing-to adjust or not to adjust | September 2015, Volume 99, Issue 9 |
| 8: Missing data—exploring the unknown | BJO Online January 2016 |