Statistics in experimental cerebrovascular researchcomparison of two groups with a continuous outcome variable

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 474-479

  Schlattmann, Peter ^a   Dirnagl, Ulrich ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Box plot; Confidence interval; Error; Power; Scatter plot; Significance; Standard deviation; Standard error of the mean; T test

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; DATA ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649270824     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2009.266     Document Type: Review

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