Issues in the hierarchy of study design, hypothesis testing, and presentation of results

Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 57-65

  Bhandari, Mohit ^a,b,d   Tornetta III, Paul ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta error; Hypothesis tests; Randomized trials; Statistics; Type II error

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042552596     PISSN: 08859698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013611-200406000-00003     Document Type: Article

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