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Going to extremes: the Goldilocks/Lagom principle and data distribution

Numerical data in biology and medicine are commonly presented as mean or median with error or confidence limits, to the exclusion of individual values. Analysis of our own and others’ data indicates that this practice risks excluding ‘Goldilocks’ effects in which a biological variable falls within a...

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Autores principales: Leese, Henry J, Sathyapalan, Thozhukat, Allgar, Victoria, Brison, Daniel R, Sturmey, Roger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6887037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31780584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027767