Alexander Wu, Jose U Scher, Alexis Ogdie, Christopher Ritchlin, Joseph F Merola
Prevention of Psoriatic Arthritis: The Need for Prospective Studies
Dermatologic clinics
every day clinical practice probability statistics used broad variety actions including explanation levels risk patients access clinical guidelines understanding research publications writing investigation papers analysing numerical data treatments options therefore unintentional statistical misconduct may originate many sources often difficult detect little known regarding prevalence underlying causes research misconduct among biomedical researchers improvements teaching statistics thoracic surgeons improve thoughtful statistical concepts reduce incidence fallacies biostatistical basis comprise aspect biostatistics surgeons aware correctly interpreting research findings understanding pvalues confidence intervals students ttests z test chisquare goodness fit anova tables basic statistical models linear logistic regression understanding biostatistics essential thoracic surgeons unaware since received statistics lessons training statistic corner journal thoracic diseases kept emphasis biostatistical methods applies thus various authors wrote analyses several types outcomes variables analyses study design measures association impact general strategies statistical analyses deceptively statistic corner articles scratched surface nonetheless hope provided stimulus enhance skills interpret biostatistics