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Dear Dr. Killick: Ordinarily I would agree with you. I handled 2 submissions of this paper where the authors did not refute the issue at hand but kept their flawed methods. On the third (and second unresponsive version), I declined to review it as nothing was new. I review under the Casella rules ...

Dear Dr. Sammuel: This is outstanding information. I have heard of COPE, but failed to make the connection. The paper in question was accepted, but not yet published. Just today, I appealed to the incoming editor so we shall see what happens. I plan to give generic feedback to the membership of ...

Hi all: I had this experience in a peer-review for an important statistics journal. I was asked to review a methods paper and did the following (1) Proved mathematically that the fundamental estimation procedure was invalid and (2) provided a valid alternative. Despite this, and without any feedback ...

Thanks for your response. Selection bias is a problem which I address (not resolve) in the discussion. Patient level data would be very helpful but with a lot of experience with Simpson's Paradox, I do not believe in study level covariates. But yes, these methods can be extended to apply to patient level ...