The risk of false-positive results in orthopaedic surgical trials.

The risk of concluding that the results of a particular study are true, when, in fact, they really are attributable to chance (or random sampling error) is underappreciated by investigators. This erroneous false-positive conclusion is designated as a Type I or alpha error. The extent to which random...

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Publicado en:Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research® Vol. 413; pp. 63 - 70
Autores principales: Bhandari M, Whang W, Kuo JC, Devereaux PJ, Sprague S, Tornetta P III
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2003 Aug
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