More medical journals should inform their contributors about three key principles of graph construction

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1017.e1-1017.e8

  Puhan, Milo A ^a   ter Riet, Gerben ^a,b   Eichler, Klaus ^a   Steurer, Johann ^a   Bachmann, Lucas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Computer graphics; Data display; Data interpretation, statistical; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748528088     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.12.016     Document Type: Note

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