Tab. 4. Summary of some reviews of the quality of statistics in medical journals, showing the percentage of “acceptable” papers (of those using statistics).

First author and year	Number of papers (journals)	% Papers acceptable
Schor, 1966	295 (10)	28
Gore, 1977	77 (1)	48
White, 1979	139 (1)	55
Glantz, 1980	79 (2)	39
Felson, 1982	74 (1)	34
MacArthur, 1982	114 (1)	28
Tyson, 1983	86 (4)	10
Avram, 1985	243 (2)	15
Thorn, 1985	120 (4)	<40
Murray, 1988	28 (1)	61
Morris, 1988	103 (1)	34
McGuigan, 1955	164 (1)	60
Welch, 1996	145 (1)	30

The table was modified from (Altman, 1998).