Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2742311 | Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine | 2015 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
This article covers the basic principles of statistics in medicine. Topics covered include types of data, descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, percentiles), the normal distribution, confidence intervals and the standard error of the mean, hypothesis testing and the choice of statistical tests, type I and II errors, contingency tables, correlation and regression, and meta-analysis.
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Authors
Ian Kestin,