Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2743153 Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine 2012 8 Pages PDF
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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