Correlation coefficients: Appropriate use and interpretation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1763-1768

  Schober, Patrick ^a   Schwarte, Lothar A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICIAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION OF DATA; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 85048115048     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002864     Document Type: Article

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