This article, the third and final article in the series, aims to give health care professionals (HCPs) a sound and helpful introduction to medical statistics (Thomas, 2004(Thomas, , 2005)). A brief summary of the content of the previous articles is given in Ta ble 1. The current article will cover t
An introduction to medical statistics for health care professionals: describing and presenting data
โ Scribed by Elaine Thomas
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1478-2189
- DOI
- 10.1002/msc.73
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
This article is the first in a series of three that will give health care professionals a sound and helpful introduction to medical statistics. This article covers three main areas: description of the different types of data available, appropriate summary measures used to describe different data types, and methods used to present these data. Copyright ยฉ 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd.
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