Key concepts in biostatistics: Using statistics to answer the question "is there a difference?"

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 347-351

  Szczech, Lynda Anne ^a   Coladonato, Joseph A ^a   Owen Jr , William F ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMETRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVIEW; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036716717     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-139X.2002.00085.x     Document Type: Review

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5. Coladonato JA, Frankenfield DL, Reddan DN, Klassen PS, Szczech LA, Johnson C, Owen WF: Trends in anemia management among U.S. hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 13:1288-1295, 2002
6. Rocco MV, Bedinger MR, Milam R, Greer JW, McClellan WM, Frankenfield DL: Duration of dialysis and its relationship to dialysis adequacy, anemia management, and serum albumin level. Am J Kidney Dis 38:813-823, 2001
7. Klassen PS, Lowrie EG, Reddan DN, Szczech LA, Coladonato JA, Lazarus MJ, Owen WF Jr: Abnormalities in pulse pressure as a mortality predictor in maintenance hemodialysis patients. JAMA 287:1548-1555, 2002