Minimum statistical standards for submissions to Neuroimage: Clinical

The demand for reproducibility has reached fever pitch in scientific research (Baker, 2015), in particular in the field of psychology where many classic studies of human behaviour have not readily replicated (Klein et al., 2014). There are many explanations for poor replication, including subject selection bias, poor experimental control, inconsistent measurement, demand characteristics, post-hoc cherry picking of significant results, partial reporting and inadequate consideration of statistical power. While, all of these potential problems can also emerge in clinical neuroimaging, a lax statistical approach remains one of the most pernicious sources of error in our field