Table 1. Characteristics of included statistical series ranked by number of covered aspects.
We considered 44 aspects, see S3 File.
| Rank | Journal | Statistical series | Years of publications | No. of articles | No. of topic-relevant articles | Average no. of pages in topic-relevant articles (range) | No. of aspects covered | Covered regression types | Covered multi-variable models | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Revista Española de Cardiologia | Contemporary methods in biostatistics | 2011 | 6 | 2 | 7.0 (7) | 35 | Linear, logistic and Cox | Yes | [22, 23] |
| 2 | Circulation | Statistical primer for cardiovascular research | 2006–2009 | 23 | 3 | 6.0 (6) | 31 | Linear, logistic and Cox | Yes | [24–26] |
| 3 | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Statistics from the inside | 1991–1995 | 16 | 3 | 4.7 (4–5) | 30 | Linear, and logistic | Yes | [27–29] |
| 4 | Deutsches Ärzteblatt International | Series of evaluation of scientific publications | 2009–2017 | 24 | 1 | 7.0 (7) | 27 | Linear, logistic, Cox, and Poisson | Yes | [20] |
| 4 | European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery | Statistical primer | 2018 | 5 | 1 | 6.0 (6) | 27 | Linear, logistic and Cox | Yes | [21] |
| 6 | American Journal of Roentgenology | Fundamentals of clinical research for radiologists | 2000–2005 | 22 | 3 | 10.3 (4–16) | 25 | Linear, logistic and Cox | Yes | [15, 16, 30] |
| 6 | European Heart Journal | Statistical tutorials | 2011–2014 | 5 | 1 | 8.0 (8) | 25 | Logistic and Cox | Yes | [31] |
| 8 | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | Clinical research in kidney diseases | 2017 | 9 | 2 | 8.5 (8–9) | 23 | Linear, logistic, Cox, and Poisson | Yes | [32, 33] |
| 8 | Nature Methods | Points of significance | 2013–2019 | 42 | 9 | 2.0 (2) | 23 | Linear and logistic | Yes | [34–42] |
| 8 | Journal of Thoracic Disease | Statistics corner | 2015–2018 | 33 | 5 | 4.8 (2–6) | 23 | Linear, logistic and Cox | Yes | [43–47] |
| 11 | Critical Care | Statistics review | 14 | 3 | 7.3 (6–9) | 23 | Yes | [48–50] | ||
| 12 | Radiology | Statistical concepts series | 2002–2004 | 17 | 2 | 6.0 (6) | 22 | Linear and logistic | Yes | [51, 52] |
| 13 | Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology | Statistics commentary series | 2014–2019 | 32 | 2 | 3.0 (3) | 19 | Linear | Yes | [53, 54] |
| 14 | Kidney International | abc of epidemiology | 2007–2009 | 17 | 3 | 5.0 (5) | 15 | Linear, logistic and Cox | Yes | [55–57] |
| 14 | Advances in Physiology Education | Explorations in statistics | 2010–2018 | 13 | 1 | 6.0 (6) | 15 | Linear | No | [58] |
| 14 | Journal of the American Medical Association | JAMA guide to statistics and methods | 2014–2017 | 20 | 2 | 2.0 (2) | 15 | Logistic | Yes | [59, 60] |
| 17 | The Medical Journal of Australia | Accessible series on statistics for clinicians | 2016–2018 | 10 | 1 | 3.0 (3) | 13 | Linear and logistic | Yes | [61] |
| 17 | Nephron Clinical Practice | Kidney disease and population health | 2009–2011 | 17 | 1 | 6.0 (6) | 13 | Cox | Yes | [62] |
| 17 | American Journal of Ophthalmology | Series on statistics | 2008–2010 | 14 | 3 | 2.0 (2) | 13 | Linear, logistic, Cox and Poisson | Yes | [63–65] |
| 20 | British Medical Journal | Statistics notes | 1994–2018 | 68 | 4 | 1.0 (1) | 12 | Linear | Yes | [66–69] |
| 21 | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | Clinical epidemiology in nephrology | 2010–2013 | 9 | 2 | 5.5 (5–6) | 11 | Logistic | Yes | [70, 71] |
| 22 | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | The Statistician’s page | 2001–2016 | 24 | 1 | 1.0 (1) | 8 | Logistic | Yes | [72] |
| 23 | Nutrition | Random bytes | 1996–1997 | 8 | 2 | 1.5 (1–2) | 3 | Linear and logistic | No | [73, 74] |