The enigma of statistics and modern cardiology

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 329-332

  Ector, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CARDIOLOGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS;

CARDIOLOGY; HUMANS; STATISTICS;

EID: 18044399018     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.40013.x     Document Type: Review

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