Clinical statistics

Statistics in clinical chemistry.

ANY PEOPLE TODAY think of statistics as a form of mathematical manipulation to be performed on numerical data. A smaller group looks upon the technics of experimental statistics as guides for specific research problems or investigations. Too few realize that statistical thinking can be applied to their routine work. Many readers have seen statistical procedures applied as an afterthought. Someh...

Trends and innovations in clinical trial statistics.

Teaching Clinical Statistics in the Medical Curriculum

It is widely recognised that medical students should be taught medical statistics, since it is part of the curriculum in many undergraduate medicine programmes. In spite of this a constant challenge in teaching medical statistics is to convince the medical students that the subject is relevant to their future careers. If it is accepted that the justification for including medical statistics in ...

Statistics in clinical appraisals of nutritional status.

Some basic statistics of clinical tonography.

Measures of the test-retest consistency of tonographic outflow facility measurements are derived from replicate tests on outpatients with ocular hypertension or chronic open-angle glaucoma. Standard deviations of about ±0.02 apply to such repeat tonographies performed at specific test-times. Recognizable components of this variation are (1) imcertainties inherent in the tonographic tracing and ...