So many experts advocate the use of an evidence hierarchy, a ladder or pyramid classifying
different types of studies in the order of their evidentiary strength.
Different types of studies use different stand - ins: Flies for genetics; zebrafish for early development; rats and mice and monkeys for cancer, neuroscience and more.
He and his colleagues contend in a second PLoS paper that physicians» decisions should be based on a mix of estimates of error
for different types of studies (such as those that Ioannidis calculated), the potential benefits of the treatments reported in those studies, and how much of those benefits their patients can do without (or how much harm they can live with) if the finding turns out to be false.
Over the last decade, important contributions to our understanding of schizophrenia have come from two
different types of studies.
There are many reasons for the discrepancy among
these different types of studies.
«Leadership requires a lot of experience in other areas and this program allowed me to sample and immerse myself in
different types of study,» he says.