A clinician-educator's roadmap to choosing and interpreting statistical tests

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 656-660

  Windish, Donna M ^a   Diener West, Marie ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational research; Faculty development; Medical education; Statistics

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; STATISTICS;

EID: 33744498377     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00390.x     Document Type: Review

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