A shortcut to rejection: How not to write the results section of a paper

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 385-389

  Streiner, David L ^a,b,c  

^a Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Results; Statistics; Writing style

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDITY;

EID: 34347266568     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370705200608     Document Type: Article

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