title: Reply to KL Stanhope and PJ Havel.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom (JMB, e-mail: martin.bland@york.ac.uk), and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (DGA).
authors.forename: J Martin
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9525-5334
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bland
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom (JMB, e-mail: martin.bland@york.ac.uk), and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (DGA).
authors.forename: Douglas G
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4083
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Altman
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000379:methods*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D013223:Statistics as Topic