Volume 58 – issue 5
October 2024
Vacancy for EDITOR position to join the EIC team
Paulin Jirkof, Annemarie Lang, Jordi L. Tremoleda and José Sanchez Morgado
pp. 390
Laboratory Animals presents Special Issue Biostatistics Notes
Romain-Daniel Gosselin and Penny S Reynolds
pp. 403
Study design: think ‘scientific value’ not ‘p-values’
Penny S Reynolds
pp. 404
Half the price, twice the gain: How to simultaneously decrease animal numbers and increase precision with good experimental design
Servan Luciano Grüninger and Florian Frommlet
pp. 411
Methods for applying blinding and randomisation in animal experiments
PS Verhave, R van Eenige and IACW Tiebosch
pp. 419
Treatment randomisation at animal or pen level?: Statistical analysis should follow the randomisation pattern!
Luc Duchateau, Robrecht Dockx, Klara Goethals, Matthijs Vynck, Frédéric Vangroenweghe and Christian Burvenich
pp. 427
Testing for normality: a user’s (cautionary) guide
Romain-Daniel Gosselin
pp. 433
Ditching the norm: Using alternative distributions for biological data analysis
Stanley E Lazic
pp. 438
Understanding p-values and significance
Naomi Altman and Martin Krzywinski
pp. 443
About statistical significance, and the lack thereof
Fulvio Magara and Benjamin Boury-Jamot
pp. 448
Depicting variability and uncertainty using intervals and error bars
Naomi Altman and Martin Krzywinski
pp. 453
Causal mediation analysis: How to avoid fooling yourself that X causes Y
Stanley E Lazic
pp. 458
Incorporating sources of correlation between outcomes: An introduction to mixed models
Limeng Liu and Ashley Petersen
pp. 463
Bayesian statistical concepts with examples from rodent toxicology studies
Gary J Larson and Keith R Shockley
pp. 470
How cage effects can hurt statistical analyses of completely randomized designs
Reid D. Landes
pp. 476
Preclinical pilot studies: Five common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Natasha A Karp, Alan Sharpe and Benjamin Phillips
pp. 481
Simulation methodologies to determine statistical power in laboratory animal research studies
Angela Jeffers, Kathryn Konrad, Gary Larson, Katherine Allen-Moyer, Helen Cunny and Keith Shockley
pp. 486
Heterogeneity of animal experiments and how to deal with it
Bernhard Voelkl and Hanno Wurbel
pp. 493
Our 61st Annual Meeting: An exciting programme is shaping up!
Jordi L. Tremoleda
pp. 499