Teaching hypothesis tests - Time for significant change?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 985-994

  Sterne, Jonathan A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Fisher; Hypothesis tests; Neyman Pearson; p values; Teaching statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

EID: 0037089847     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1129     Document Type: Article

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