Religion and science: a guide for the 'perplexed'

Publishing Addiction Science: a Guide for the Perplexed

A research paper, book, policy document or treatment manual should refer to other writing that is relevant to its message. Citation is the formal vehicle for doing this. It involves explicit reference to a piece of research output which can in principle be anything from an article in a journal to a web-site. Conventions applying to citation practice regulate the transmission of information. Cit...

Publishing Addiction Science: a Guide for the Perplexed

The abstract summarizes how you carried out your research and what you learned. Even if you don't use the structured abstract (Objective, Methods (or) Design, Sample, Results, and Conclusion) it can serve as a guide to a succinct unstructured abstract. As an example of structured abstracts, the British Medical Journal requires structured abstracts within a sound framework: objectives, design, s...

A Guide for the Perplexed

A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed

Preamble The meaning of “ethical” adopted here is one of being in accordance with the accepted rules or standards for right conduct that govern the practice of some profession. The professions we have in mind are statistics and the behavioral sciences, and the standards for ethical practice are what we try to instill in our students through the methodology courses we offer, with particular emph...

Entropy – A Guide for the Perplexed

Entropy is ubiquitous in physics, and it plays important roles in numerous other disciplines ranging from logic and statistics to biology and economics. However, a closer look reveals a complicated picture: entropy is defined differently in different contexts, and even within the same domain different notions of entropy are at work. Some of these are defined in terms of probabilities, others ar...