Significant difference, statistically or clinically——Pay more attention to the statistical analysis in medical references
- VernacularTitle:统计学意义与临床意义距离有多远?——医学文献中统计分析结果解读需仔细
- Author:
Guangwei LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Statistics;
Statistic difference;
Clinical significance
- From:
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
1985;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
We can not do any clinical research if knowing nothing of statistics. In order to understand the results from a clinical research, readers must know the characteristics of the data, the features of the selected variables, the relation between % and 95% confidence interval, as well as the definitions of difference in clinical and statistical analysis, and it may be more important to make the evaluation of mechanism based on suitable explanation of clinical significance by means of statistical results.
