Reporting Statistical Information in Medical Journal Articles
Authors:
- Peter CummingsPCPeter Cummings
- Frederick P. RivaraFRFrederick P. Rivara
Open Access
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Vol. 157 (4) , 321-324
Abstract
STATISTICS IS not merely about distributions or probabilities, although these are part of the discipline. In the broadest sense, statistics is the use of numberKeywords
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