In lieu of that, we hope effusive praise for Phil will suffice.) (One of the rules for writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules article is to be Phil Bourne. Several months ago, Phil Bourne, the initiator and frequent author of the wildly successful and incredibly useful “Ten Simple Rules” series, suggested that some statisticians put together a Ten Simple Rules article related to statistics. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: BSC's research is partially supported by the National Institutes of Health grant EB012547: MD's research is partially supported by the National Institutes of Health grant NIH P01 CA142538: REK's research is partially supported by the National Institute of Mental Health R01 MH064537: NR's research is partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada grant RGPIN-2015-06390: BY's research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation grant CCF-0939370: XLM's research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation ( DMS 1513492. PLoS Comput Biol 12(6):Įditor: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute, UNITED STATESĬopyright: © 2016 Kass et al.
Citation: Kass RE, Caffo BS, Davidian M, Meng X-L, Yu B, Reid N (2016) Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice.