Setting number of decimal places for reporting risk ratios: Rule of four

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cole, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; DECIMAL PLACE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK RATIO; RULE OF FOUR; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICS; SUMMARY STATISTICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84930646353     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1845     Document Type: Article

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