Knowledge of European orthodontic postgraduate students on biostatistics

European Journal of Orthodontics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 434-440

  Polychronopoulou, Argy ^a   Eliades, Theodore ^b   Taoufik, Konstantina ^a   Papadopoulos, Moschos A ^b   Athanasiou, Athanasios E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL EDUCATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHODONTICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOSTATISTICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EDUCATION, DENTAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHODONTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80051688693     PISSN: 01415387     EISSN: 14602210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejo/cjq098     Document Type: Article

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