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Guidelines for contributors

We welcome contributions to the Transparent Statistics guidelines at all levels, from comments on existing topics to proposals for new topics. For more on how to contribute to the guidelines, please see these documents:

• Style Guide
• Contributing to the Guidelines
• Code of Conduct

For information on how the release process works, see this document:

• Release Process

Terminology

To help with consistency, here is a summary of the content and the terminology we use:

• The transparent statistics guidelines is the primary document we're working on. It's the entire bookdown document and it's made of chapters.
• The first chapter is about general guiding principles for transparent statistics. These principles are meant to shape the rest of the guidelines. There's no R code there.
• The next chapters (starting from chapter 2) are topic chapters. Individual topic chapters can also be referred to as guidelines, e.g., effect size guidelines. Each topic chapter has a FAQ and exemplars. Choices made in the exemplars should be consistent with the FAQ, which should be consistent with the general guiding principles.
• In the future there may be extra chapters that don't follow the structure of topic chapters, but we don't know. Basically the major unit in the transparent statistics guidelines is the chapter. Chapters are released, endorsed, etc.
• Guidelines for contributors are secondary documents we're also working on. These are wiki documents (5 for now, including the one you're reading now).
• All these documents (all chapters from the bookdown and all of the wiki documents) are currently working drafts and need to be refined with the rest of the community.