SPORTSCIENCE

  

A Peer-Reviewed Journal and Site for Sport Research

Highlights of Sportscience 1997-2024 

 Highlights of Conference Reports

Tim Noakes and Brian Whipp debated hypoxic muscles at the 1999 ACSM meeting. See also Whipp on falsifiability at the 2010 ACSM meeting.

Regression vs limits of agreement in Ancient Greece: A Socratic Dialogue on Comparison of Measures, presented at the 2010 ACSM meeting.

At the 2011 meeting, Hans Hoppeler handed over presidency of the "teenage" ECSS to philosopher Sigmund Loland, who then spoke on the mind-body problem applied to athlete skilled movement.
 Highlights of Perspectives and Research Resources
1997-98
2014
  Thirteen vignettes of trail-blazing exercise physiologists, contributed by Frank Katch to the then Sportscience News 1997-1998. See also his Exercise Physiology: The Last 2500 Years in 2014.
2007
Understanding Statistics by Using Spreadsheets to Generate and Analyze Samples. Will Hopkins. Implicit learning of all the important biomedical stats concepts.
2007-22
A Spreadsheet for Deriving a Confidence Interval, Mechanistic Inference and Clinical Inference from a P Value. Will Hopkins. An old resource updated with new insights about sample-based research.
2009
2014
Progressive Statistics. Will Hopkins, Alan Batterham, Stephen Marshall, and Juri Hanin. Current best practice in data analysis and presentation.
2010-19
Linear Models and Effect Magnitudes for Research, Clinical and Practical Applications. Will Hopkins. Theory and advice on data analysis and interpretation.
2015-24
Spreadsheets for Analysis of Validity and Reliability. Will Hopkins. New one- and two-way reliability analyses, and a citable article.
2020
Sample-size Estimation for Various Inferential Methods. Will Hopkins. Methods for MBD, NHST, superiority testing and equivalence testing, with explanations and advice.
2022
Replacing Statistical Significance and Non-Significance with Better Approaches to Sampling Uncertainty. Will Hopkins. Interpret confidence limits, test substantial and non-substantial hypotheses, and/or use Bayesian probabilities for substantial and trivial.
2023
How to Identify and Specify Fixed and Random Effects for Linear Mixed Models in the Statistical Analysis System. Will Hopkins. Data, variables, effects and analyses explained and exemplified with simulations in 15 programs.  
2024
Confidence Intervals and Meta-analysis Resolve the Replication Crisis. Will Hopkins. Proper consideration of effect uncertainty shows that replication failures are expected and explained as effect heterogeneity in a random-effect meta-regression.    
  Misuse of Standardization to Meta-analyze Differences in Means. Will Hopkins, Dave Rowlands. The right standard deviations are used to standardize in only ~10% of published meta-analyses.
  A spreadsheet for technical error and biological variability. Will Hopkins, Basilio Pueo. Use it for simultaneous measurements with two devices in a reliability study.

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