Fear or favour? Statistics in pathology

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-18

  Wade, Angie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0033979934     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.1.16     Document Type: Review

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