A retrospective survey of research design and statistical analyses in selected chinese medical journals in 1998 and 2008

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Jin, Zhichao ^a   Yu, Danghui ^a   Zhang, Luoman ^a   Meng, Hong ^a   Lu, Jian ^a   Gao, Qingbin ^a   Cao, Yang ^a   Ma, Xiuqiang ^a   Wu, Cheng ^a   He, Qian ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   He, Jia ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EVALUATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; CHINA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956289731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010822     Document Type: Article

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