Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Inferential statistics, power estimates, and study design formalities
  continue to suppress biomedical innovation   Innovation is the direct intended product of certain styles in research, but
not of others. Fundamental conflicts between descriptive vs inferential
statistics, deductive vs inductive hypothesis testing, and exploratory vs
pre-planned confirmatory research designs have been played out over decades,
with winners and losers and consequences. Longstanding warnings from both
academics and research-funding interests have failed to influence effectively
the course of these battles. The NIH publicly studied and diagnosed important
aspects of the problem a decade ago, resulting in outward changes in the grant
review process but not a definitive correction. Specific reforms could
deliberately abate the damage produced by the current overemphasis on
inferential statistics, power estimates, and prescriptive study design. Such
reform would permit a reallocation of resources to historically productive
rapid exploratory efforts and considerably,increase the chances for
higher-impact research discoveries. We can profit from the history and
foundation of these conflicts to make specific recommendations for
administrative objectives and the process of peer review in decisions regarding
research funding. (C) 2013 S. Kern

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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat