Use of statistical methods in dental research: Comparison of four dental journals during a 10-year period

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 206-211

  Vähänikkilä, Hannu ^a   Nieminen, Pentti ^b   Miettunen, Jouko ^b,c   Larmas, Markku ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Articles; Journals; Research methodology; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DENTAL RESEARCH; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; KAPPA STATISTICS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL RESEARCH; DENTISTRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350398094     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: 15023850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016350902837922     Document Type: Article

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