Statistics and Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine: Answers to 21 Common Statistical Questions That Arise from Reading Scientific Manuscripts

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 477-486

  Evans, Richard B ^a   O'Connor, Annette ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL CARE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTOGRAM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDITY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RESEARCH; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 34247341003     PISSN: 01955616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2007.01.006     Document Type: Review

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