Reporting of statistical results in prosthodontic and implantology journals: P values or confidence intervals

International Journal of Prosthodontics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 427-432

  Kloukos, Dimitrios ^a   Papageorgiou, Spyridon N ^b   Fleming, Padhraig S ^c   Petridis, Haralampos ^d   Pandis, Nikolaos ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Private Practice ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENTAL IMPLANTATION; DENTAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, DENTAL; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROSTHODONTICS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84908552340     PISSN: 08932174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11607/ijp.4011     Document Type: Article

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