How to choose and interpret a statistical test? An update for budding researchers

Postgraduate medical students are often not able to select and interpret the findings of statistical tests during their thesis or research projects. To go ahead with selection of tests to be performed, researchers need to determine the objectives of study, types of variables, analysis and the study...

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Autores principales: Najmi, Ahmad, Sadasivam, Balakrishnan, Ray, Avik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8483143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660402
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_433_21
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description Postgraduate medical students are often not able to select and interpret the findings of statistical tests during their thesis or research projects. To go ahead with selection of tests to be performed, researchers need to determine the objectives of study, types of variables, analysis and the study design, number of groups and data sets, and the types of distribution. In this review, we summarize and explain various statistical tests to help postgraduate medical students to select the most appropriate techniques for their thesis and dissertation.
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spelling pubmed-84831432021-10-14 How to choose and interpret a statistical test? An update for budding researchers Najmi, Ahmad Sadasivam, Balakrishnan Ray, Avik J Family Med Prim Care Review Article Postgraduate medical students are often not able to select and interpret the findings of statistical tests during their thesis or research projects. To go ahead with selection of tests to be performed, researchers need to determine the objectives of study, types of variables, analysis and the study design, number of groups and data sets, and the types of distribution. In this review, we summarize and explain various statistical tests to help postgraduate medical students to select the most appropriate techniques for their thesis and dissertation. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-08 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8483143/ /pubmed/34660402 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_433_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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