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MISUSE OF STATISTICAL METHODS IN THE AUSTRALASIAN SURGICAL LITERATURE
Author(s) -
HALL JOHN C.,
HILL D.,
Watts J. McK.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1982.tb06050.x
Subject(s) - medicine , test (biology) , statistical analysis , statistical hypothesis testing , statistics , statistical significance , medical physics , mathematics , paleontology , biology
Amongst the 456 papers published in the Aust NZ J Surg during 1978 to 1980, there were 91 papers (20%) that were analytical in nature. Of these publications, 71 (78%) contained errors in the usage of nondescriptive statistics. Authors often failed to test for significance when it was appropriate, quoted probability values without reference to a test, and misused basic statistical} techniques.