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An introduction to medical statistics for health care professionals: describing and presenting data
Author(s) -
Thomas Elaine
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
musculoskeletal care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1557-0681
pISSN - 1478-2189
DOI - 10.1002/msc.73
Subject(s) - medicine , data science , health professionals , health care , summary statistics , medical statistics , health statistics , statistics , computer science , environmental health , mathematics , pathology , economics , economic growth , population
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 © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd.