Misuse of statistical methods in 10 leading chinese medical journals in 1998 and 2008

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Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 2106-2114

  Wu, Shunquan ^a   Jin, Zhichao ^a   Wei, Xin ^b   Gao, Qingbin ^a   Lu, Jian ^a   Ma, Xiuqiang ^a   Wu, Cheng ^a   He, Qian ^a   Wu, Meijing ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Xu, Jinfang ^a   He, Jia ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

errors; medical journals; misuse; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHINESE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

CHINA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL;

EID: 81455132788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/2011/139494     Document Type: Article

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