Demystifying statistics: How to choose a statistical test?

How to choose the right statistical test?

The major purposes of statistics are to help us understand and describe phenomena in our world and to help us draw reliable conclusions about those phenomena. Yet, for want of exposure to statistical theory and practice, it continues to be regarded as the Achilles heel by all concerned in the loop of research and publication. There are many different types of statistical analysis. Choosing the ...

How to Choose the Appropriate Statistical Method

APRIL 2005 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2 • CLINICAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY NURSING This is the second in a series of articles to help nurses use and understand statistics. The purpose of the series is to assist nurses in critically reviewing published studies and implementing the fi ndings of research into clinical practice. The fi rst article addressed basic statistical considerations and types of variabl...

How to Choose a Mentor?

Mentorship programs have been found to be of great use in all career fields, especially medicine. Given that the practice of medicine is best learnt by a hands-on training, a mentorship program can prove invaluable for the young clinician scientist. A structured super-speciality training program can help in both, acquisition of clinical and research skills, as well as career growth. How to cite...

Demystifying EQA statistics and reports

Reports act as an important feedback tool in External Quality Assessment (EQA). Their main role is to score laboratories for their performance in an EQA round. The most common scores that apply to quantitative data are Q- and Z-scores. To calculate these scores, EQA providers need to have an assigned value and standard deviation for the sample. Both assigned values and standard deviations can b...

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