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

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7105, 1997, Pages 422-425

  Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030825387     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7105.422     Document Type: Short Survey

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