The Use of Statistics in Medical Research
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 61 (1) , 47-55
- https://doi.org/10.1198/000313007x170242
Abstract
There is widespread evidence of the extensive use of statistical methods in medical research. Just the same, standards are generally low and a growing body of literature points to statistical error...Keywords
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