Article Text
Why glucocorticoids should be removed from the banned list
Abstract
Sports medicine clinicians and researchers should all be familiar with the concepts of false positives and false negatives. Research to test a hypothesis about a link between, say, a risk factor and a disease, can potentially be wrong in either of two ways. The findings might falsely show a link when in reality one does not exist (a type I or á error), or they may fail to show a link when there really is one (a type II or â error)1 2. Hopefully most of the time, if studies are well conducted, the likelihood of both of these errors is reduced.