Perhaps the finest series of short articles on the use of statistics is the occasional series of Statistics Notes started in 1994 by the British Medical Journal.

• Correlation, regression, and repeated data J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1994;308:896 (2 April)
• Regression towards the mean J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1994;308:1499 (4 June)
• Diagnostic tests 1: sensitivity and specificity Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;308:1552 (11 June)
• Diagnostic tests 2: predictive values Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;309:102 (9 July)
• Diagnostic tests 3: receiver operating characteristic plots Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;309:188 (16 July)
• One and two sided tests of significance J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1994;309:248 (23 July)
• Some examples of regression towards the mean J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1994;309:780 (24 September)
• Quartiles, quintiles, centiles, and other quantiles Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;309:996 (15 October)
• Matching J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1994;309:1128 (29 October)
• Multiple significance tests: the Bonferroni method J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1995;310:170 (21 January)
• The normal distribution Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1995;310:298 (4 February)
• Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 1--correlation within subjects J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1995;310:446 (18 February)
• Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 2--correlation between subjects J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1995;310:633 (11 March)
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1995;311:485 (19 August)
• Presentation of numerical data J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:572 (2 March)
• Logarithms J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:700 (16 March)
• Transforming data J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:770 (23 March)
• Transformations, means, and confidence intervals J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:1079 (27 April)
• The use of transformation when comparing two means J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:1153 (4 May)
• Comparing several groups using analysis of variance Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1996;312:1472-1473 (8 June)
• Measurement error and correlation coefficients J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;313:41-42 (6 July)
• Measurement error proportional to the mean J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;313:106 (13 July)
• Interaction 1: heterogeneity of effects Douglas G Altman & John NS Matthews BMJ 1996;313:486 (24 August)
• Measurement error J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;313:744 (21 September)
• Interaction 2: compare effect sizes not P values John NS Matthews & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;313:808 (28 September)
• Interaction 3: How to examine heterogeneity John NS Matthews & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;313:862 (5 October)
• Detecting skewness from summary information Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1996;313:1200 (9 November)
• Cronbach's alpha J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1997;314:572 (22 February)
• Units of analysis Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1997;314:1874 (28 June)
• Trials randomised in clusters J Martin Bland & Sally M Kerry BMJ 1997;315:600 (6 September)
• Analysis of a trial randomised in clusters Sally M Kerry & Martin Bland BMJ 1998;316:54
• Weighted comparison of means Martin Bland & Sally M Kerry BMJ 1998;316:129 (10 January)
• Sample size in cluster randomisation Sally M Kerry & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;316:549 (14 February)
• The intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation Sally M Kerry & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;316:1455-1460 (9 May)
• Generalisation and extrapolation Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;317:409-410 (8 August)
• Time to event (survival) data Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;317:468-469 (15 August)
• Bayesians and frequentists J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1998;317:1151-1160 (24 October)
• Survival probabilities (the Kaplan-Meier method) J Martin Bland, & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1998;317:1572-1580 (5 December)
• Treatment allocation in controlled trials: why randomise? Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1999;318:1209-1209 (1 May)
• Variables and parameters Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1999;318:1667-1667 (19 June)
• How to randomise Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1999;319:703-704 (11 September)
• The odds ratio Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 2000;320:1468 (27 May)
• Blinding in clinical trials and other studies Simon J Day & Douglas G Altman BMJ 2000;321:504 (19 August)
• Concealing treatment allocation in randomised trials Douglas G Altman & Kenneth F Schulz BMJ 2001;323:446-447 (25 August)
• Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements Andrew J Vickers & Douglas G Altman BMJ 2001;323:1123-1124 (10 November)
• Validating scales and indexes J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 2002;324:606-607 (9 March)
• Interaction revisited: the difference between two estimates Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 2003;326:219 (25 January)
• The logrank test J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 2004 328(7447):1073 (1 May)
• Diagnostic tests 4: likelihood ratios. JJ Deeks & Douglas G Altman BMJ 2004 329:168-169
• Treatment allocation by minimisation. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ. 2005 Apr 9;330(7495):843
• Standard deviations and standard errors. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ. 2005 Oct 15;331(7521):903
• Missing data. J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman BMJ. 2007 Feb 24;334(7590):424

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