peer review

(noun)

the scholarly process whereby manuscripts intended to be published in an academic journal are reviewed by independent researchers (referees) to evaluate the contribution, i.e. the importance, novelty and accuracy of the manuscript's contents

Related Terms

Examples of peer review in the following topics:

  • Confounding

    • Smoking and confounding are reviewed in occupational risk assessments such as the safety of coal mining.
    • Peer review is a process that can assist in reducing instances of confounding, either before study implementation or after analysis has occurred.

  • Practice: The Central Limit Theorem

    • Each month she must review 16 of the employees.
    • Assume that the 16 reviews represent a random set of reviews.
    • Find the probability that one review will take Yoonie from 3.5 to 4.25 hours.
    • Find the 95th percentile for the mean time to complete one month's reviews.
    • Find the 95th percentile for the sum of the month's reviews.

  • References

    • Psychological Review, 67, 160-167.

  • Review

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  • Sampling Distributions and Statistic of a Sampling Distribution

    • (See Sampling and Data for a review of relative frequency).

  • Review

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  • A single-variable model for the Mario Kart data

    • (See Section 7.2.7 for a review of the interpretation for two-level categorical predictor variables.)