Assessment of submitted manuscripts in medical sciences according to statistical errors;Tıp Bilimlerinde Gönderilen Çalışmaların İstatistiksel Hatalara Göre Deǧerlendirilmesi

Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1381-1387

  Ercan, Ilker ^a   Ocakoǧlu, Gökhan ^a   Siǧirli, Deniz ^a   Özkaya, Güven ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Manuscripts; Medical; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BIOSTATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 84863882817     PISSN: 13000292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5336/medsci.2012-29517     Document Type: Review

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