HOW TO READ STATISTICS

How to Read Autofiction

How to Read a Research

The goal of this Research Brief is to provide information that will make reading a research article more illuminating. For example, you might want to learn about whether any research has been done showing that children benefit when they are read to more frequently. To answer this question, start with a literature search on the web (see “Resources for Doing Web Research”1) and then identify the ...

How to Read a Signature?

In this note we describe a cryptographic curiosity: readable messages that carry their own digital signature.

How to read a clinical trial paper: a lesson in basic trial statistics.

While the number of clinical trials performed yearly is increasing, the application of these results to individual patients is quite difficult. This article reviews key portions of the process of applying research results to clinical practice. The first step involves defining the study population and determining whether these patients are similar to the patients seen in clinical practice in ter...

How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls.

It is possible to be seriously misled by taking the statistical competence (and/or the intellectual honesty) of authors for granted. Some common errors committed (deliberately or inadvertently) by the authors of papers are given in the final box.