*Geek Box: Heterogeneity When you read a meta-analysis, you will inevitably come across the term ‘heterogeneity’, which reflects statistical tests …

*Geek Box: The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) is a grading tool to assess the quality of non-randomised trials …

*Geek Box: The Vitamin K Cycle Yes, vitamin K has it’s own ‘cycle’, which makes it one of those cooler nutrients. Vitamin K …

*Geek Box: ROBINS-E The Risk of Bias in Non-Randomized Studies of Exposures [ROBINS-E] is a tool for grading risk of …

*Geek Box: Reviews  Reviews are common in research, and have the potential to be valuable to both peers in a given field …

*Geek Box: P-values vs. Confidence Intervals Most of us are not statisticians, and yet statistics are at the core of …

*Geek Box: Determining Chronotype The concept of a “chronotype” denotes, a phenotype reflecting an individuals’ time of day preferences. This has historically …

*Geek Box: Biological, Social, and Solar Clocks Reading any circadian or chrononutrition research can mean seeing continued reference to “clocks”, and …

*Geek Box: Retrospective Analysis If you’ve heard of a retrospective study, most likely it is in the context of a retrospective …

*Geek Box: Average Treatment Effect One of the main reasons why RCTs are considered more reliable than other research designs is …