Well, many many years ago I was working at Tufts Medical Center, and Joseph Howe,
who was one of the founders of medical med analysis came and joined us
and he needed a statistician to help him on some of his projects and I got involved.
For any journal you want to be transparent in what you do and you want
your statement very clearly and you want to give good clear discussions.
But be careful when you're submitting a paper.
It's a little bit luck of the draw what kind of reviewer you get but
try to always be very polite in your responses to the questions they ask.
And just try to get answers back that
will answer their questions but don't give away your integrity.
It's your paper and you should make it what you want it to be.
Well, my big thing these days is outcome reporting bias.
Basically, if you do the meta-analysis and you find
a bunch of studies but only very few of them report a particular outcome,
it's really a problem if you just report
on a few studies that report that outcome without saying
anything about all the studies that don't because there's probably
a good reason why they didn't report those outcomes.
And it's probably related to the fact that the result was insignificant,
and so you'll get a biased answer.