Common statistical errors even YOU can find. Part 2: errors in multivariate analyses and in interpreting differences between groups.
This article is the second in a series in which I describe several of the more common statistical errors in the biomedical literature. The first article in the series focused on 10 errors in descriptive statistics and in interpreting probability, or P values. Here, I provide an overview of multivari...
| Published in: | AMWA Journal: American Medical Writers Association Journal Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 103 - 108 |
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| Format: | pictorial Journal Article |
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American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
2003
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | This article is the second in a series in which I describe several of the more common statistical errors in the biomedical literature. The first article in the series focused on 10 errors in descriptive statistics and in interpreting probability, or P values. Here, I provide an overview of multivariate analyses (regression analysis and analysis of variance, or ANOVA) and describe nine errors in interpreting differences between groups. |
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