Statistical Pitfalls in Medical Research
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Statistical pitfalls in medical research.
In conducting and reporting of medical research, there are some common pitfalls in using statistical methodology which may result in invalid inferences being made. This paper is aimed to highlight to inexperienced statisticians or non-statistician some of the common statistical pitfalls encountered when using statistics to interpret data in medical research. We also comment on good practices to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Malawi Medical Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1995-7262
DOI: 10.4314/mmj.v20i1.10949