Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wan, Xiang ^a   Wang, Wenqian ^b   Liu, Jiming ^a   Tong, Tiejun ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interquartile range; Median; Meta analysis; Sample mean; Sample size; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84926434654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-135     Document Type: Article

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