P values: Use and misuse in medical literature

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-23

  Cohen, Hillel W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' theorem; blood pressure; confidence interval; hypertension; hypothesis testing; P value; probability; statistical inference; statistical significance; statistics; type I error; type II error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MAGIC; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 78650279725     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2010.205     Document Type: Article

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