Descriptive and inferential statistical methods used in burns research

Burns

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-346

  Al Benna, Sammy ^a   Al Ajam, Yazan ^b   Way, Benjamin ^b   Steinstraesser, Lars ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burns; Journals; Research report; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BONFERRONI METHOD; BURN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DUNNETT METHOD; FISHER EXACT TEST; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STUDENT T TEST; TAMHANE METHOD; TURKEY KRAMER METHOD; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOSTATISTICS; BURNS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAUMATOLOGY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOSTATISTICS; BURNS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 77649337020     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.030     Document Type: Article

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