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Why randomized controlled trials fail but needn't: 2. Failure to employ physiological statistics, or the only formula a clinician-trialist is ever likely to need (or understand!)
2001
CMAJ - Canadian Medical Association Journal
Because statistics has too often been presented as a bag of specialized computational tools, with morbid emphasis on calculation, it is no wonder that survivors of such courses regard their statistical tools as instruments of torture [rather] than as diagnostic aids in the art and science of data analysis. -George W. Cobb 1 From the underside It was the seventh time I had taken a course in basic biostatistics, and I vowed that this time I was actually going to understand it. The year was 1974,
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