Set of guidelines for using statistical analysis
The MAGIC criteria are a set of guidelines put forth by Robert Abelson in his book "Statistics as Principled Argument". In this book he posits that the goal of statistical analysis should be to make compelling claims about the world and he presents the MAGIC criteria as a way to do that.
What are the MAGIC criteria?
MAGIC is a backronym for:
Reviews and applications of the MAGIC criteria.
Song Qian noted that the MAGIC criteria could be of use to ecologists. Claudia Stanny discussed them in a course on psychology. Anne Boomsma noted that they are useful when presenting results of complex statistical methods such as structural equation modelling.