What Do Anesthesiologists Know about p Values, Confidence Intervals, and Correlations: A Pilot Survey

Anesthesiology Research and Practice

Volumn 2017, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Schober, Patrick ^a   Bossers, Sebastiaan M ^a   Dong, Phi Vu ^b   Boer, Christa ^a   Schwarte, Lothar A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGIST; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MALE; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 85042132219     PISSN: 16876962     EISSN: 16876970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2017/4201289     Document Type: Article

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