R help - Jul 2024 - OFF TOPIC: Nature article on File Drawer Problem in Reserach

I know you didn't want to stimulate discussion, but the problem is not
confined to publication.  "Adverse reaction to medication" monitoring
programs are plagued by a similarly massive under-reporting problem:
adverse reactions are seldom reported unless they are particularly bad
or surprising.  (The Ministry of Health in my country estimates 90% of
cases are never reported.)  Remembering to check for possible bias
from unreported cases is a human problem for analysts.  Which, if any,
R packages have proven useful to detecting the existence of a
systematic under-reporting problem might well be an appropriate topic
for this list.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 02:44, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Again, this is off topic, not about statistics or R, but I think of
> interest to many on this list. The title is:
>
> "So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"
>
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02383-9
>
> Best to all,
> Bert
>
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Chapter 9 might be of interest:

https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/

And specifically, for funnel plots in R:
https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/funnel.html

Best,
Rob

On 7/25/2024 6:40 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> I know you didn't want to stimulate discussion, but the problem is not
> confined to publication.  "Adverse reaction to medication"
monitoring
> programs are plagued by a similarly massive under-reporting problem:
> adverse reactions are seldom reported unless they are particularly bad
> or surprising.  (The Ministry of Health in my country estimates 90% of
> cases are never reported.)  Remembering to check for possible bias
> from unreported cases is a human problem for analysts.  Which, if any,
> R packages have proven useful to detecting the existence of a
> systematic under-reporting problem might well be an appropriate topic
> for this list.
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 02:44, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Again, this is off topic, not about statistics or R, but I think of
>> interest to many on this list. The title is:
>>
>> "So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"
>>
>> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02383-9
>>
>> Best to all,
>> Bert
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>