Open AccessStatistical fallacies in orthopedic research
Author(s) -
Abhaya Indrayan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.30524
Subject(s) - credibility , medicine , forgetting , statistical evidence , statistical significance , affect (linguistics) , statistical hypothesis testing , psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , null hypothesis , communication
A large number of statistical fallacies occur in medical research literature. These are mostly inadvertent and occur due to lack of understanding of the statistical concepts and terminologies. Many researchers do not fully appreciate the consequence of such fallacies on the credibility of their report.