Common statistical errors even you can find! Part 5: errors in reports of diagnostic tests.
This article is the fifth in a series in which I describe several of the more common statistical errors in the biomedical literature. The first article focused on 10 errors in descriptive statistics and in interpreting probability, or P values (AMWA J. 2003;18: 67-71); the second article described 9...
| Publicado en: | AMWA Journal: American Medical Writers Association Journal Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 50 - 52 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
2005
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