JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses Minimal Clinically Important Difference: Defining What Really Matters to Patients with Anna E. McGlothlin, PhD

One of the most common causes for problems we see in manuscripts at JAMA is an inappropriately calculated study sample size. This seemingly mysterious process is explained by Lynne Stokes, PhD, professor of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses Pragmatic Trials: Practical Answers to “Real-world” Questions with Harold C. Sox, MD, of PCORI

JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses "Cluster Randomized Trials: Evaluating Treatments Applied to Groups" with William J. Meurer, MD, MS

Ed Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF, discusses Noninferiority Trials: Is a New Treatment Almost as Effective as Another? with Amy Kaji, MD, PhD

Clinical researchers and biostatisticians use highly specialized language to help them discuss statistics and research methods efficiently. In 2019 JAMA published the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods, a book of short reviews that translate that specialized language and explain statistics and methods to a broad physician readership. The book's editors and authors, Edward Livingston, MD, and Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discuss their approach to choosing statistical topics and their objectives in compiling the reviews into book format.

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