These conceptual papers make it simple to grasp the meaning of common statistical terms used in scientific studies

- Understanding Relative Risk, Odds Ratio, and Related Terms: As Simple as It Can Get
 - Why Odds Ratios Can Be Tricky Statistics: The Case of Finasteride, Dutasteride, and Sexual Dysfunction
 - The Numbers Needed to Treat and Harm (NNT, NNH) Statistics: What They Tell Us and What They Do Not
 - Likelihood of Being Helped or Harmed as a Measure of Clinical Outcomes in Psychopharmacology
 - A Primer on Confidence Intervals in Psychopharmacology
 - Mean difference, standardized mean difference (SMD) and their use in meta-analysis: as simple as it gets
 - Understanding the basics of meta-analysis and how to read a forest plot: as simple as it gets
 - A student’s guide to the classification and operationalization of variables in the conceptualization and design of a clinical study: Part 1
 - A student’s guide to the classification and operationalization of variables in the conceptualization and design of a clinical study: Part 2
 - Cause Versus Association in Observational Studies in Psychopharmacology
 - Describing Research Design
 - Designing and Conducting Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Surveys in Psychiatry: Practical Guidance
 - The P Value and Statistical Significance: Misunderstandings, Explanations, Challenges, and Alternatives
 - Sample Size and its Importance in Research
 - Internal, External, and Ecological Validity in Research Design, Conduct, and Evaluation
 - How to write a good abstract for a scientific paper or conference presentation
 
Courtesy: Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade. This was shared over an email in e journal club that I am a member of