TO THE EDITOR: It was fantastic to participate in the training run for the new JNMT Twitter-
based journal club (@ JNMTClub using# JNMTClub). Although only a small number of …

Because the field of statistics has become so important in medicine, it is well worth the time
of a physician in nuclear medicine to become acquainted with the lan guage of statistics, the …

1370 Objectives Statistical significance does not equal clinical significance. This study
looked at how frequently statistically significant results in the nuclear medicine literature are …

1262 Learning Objectives 1. To understand the difference between specificity and positive
predictive value as they relate to statistical significance. 2. To be able to calculate the …

In interpreting the significance of a laboratory mea surement, it is often helpful to know how
the value ob tained in a given case relates to a set of values from a healthy reference …

Because statistics is, in a sense, the heart of the scientific method, and because the field of
statistics, beginning with Karl Pearson and RA Fisher, has developed for the specific …

TO THE EDITOR: The lead article, by Siegel et al.(1), in the January 2017 issue of The
Journal of Nuclear Medicine is brilliant, timely, and scientifically superb. Unfortunately, the …

TO THE EDITOR: In preparing this letter on the proposal of the American Board of Nuclear
Medicine (ABNM)–American Board of Radiology (ABR) task force (1), my most difficult …

As of January 2001, we implemented review by statisticians of all accepted manuscripts
having statistical content. This represented a major change for Radiology, in that prior to …

When was the last time that you thanked someone who works for you? When was the last
time someone thanked you for a job well done? How often do you receive positive feedback …