Methodology v3.2 · Independently funded · No affiliate revenue Methodology · Editorial
What’s the Best Calorie Tracking App
Methodology v3.2 · Editorial Team
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Tomás Filipovic-Reyes, PhD, MSc

Senior Scientist

Active 2010–present

ORCID: 0000-0001-9285-6473

About Dr. Filipovic-Reyes

Tomás’s role at this publication is to make sure the statistics are defensible. The category of consumer calorie-tracking apps is awash in marketing-grade claims — “industry-leading accuracy,” “AI-powered precision” — that do not survive the most basic methodological scrutiny. The same apps fail to publish their test sets, refuse to share raw data, and produce vendor-funded “studies” with sample sizes that would be embarrassing in a first-year graduate biostatistics seminar. Tomás’s job is to produce the counterweight: rigorous, replicable, peer-review-grade analysis of every consumer claim this publication evaluates.

He is the named author on the statistical-methodology articles, the second signatory on Methodology v3.2, and the gating reviewer on any article that publishes a confidence interval or a comparative ranking. His authority is technical, not editorial: he can hold up publication of any piece whose statistics he cannot vouch for, and has done so three times since the publication launched.

Credentials in detail

Pre-publication work

Four years as senior biostatistician at a clinical-trials methodology center, including two NIH-funded consumer-app validation studies (R01 dietary-assessment instruments; K23 mobile-health intervention statistical methodology). Author of nine peer-reviewed methodology papers covering bootstrap inference, replication validity, and inter-laboratory agreement coefficients.

Editorial focus

Tomás authors statistical-methodology articles (MAPE, MAE, MAD; replicability and vendor claims; database verification). He is the named statistical reviewer on every keystone review and every accuracy-ranking piece. He does not write athlete-facing or clinician-facing content; those are Annika’s and Inés’s domains.

Conflicts of interest

No financial relationships with calorie-tracking-app vendors, no equity in app makers, no advisory positions. Income from this publication and from independent academic methodology consulting unrelated to consumer apps. Has never been compensated by an app developer.

Recent work