title: Teaching statistics to health professionals: the legal analogy.
abstract: Despite the importance of statistical concepts to health professionals, the teaching of statistics to students from this field has generally been unrewarding. We feel that a few central concepts are crucial to all statistical thinking and that, for most health professionals, the communication of these is more important than learning about complex mathematical models. A device for demonstrating the parallels between a criminal legal trial and statistical hypothesis testing is presented. We feel that it can facilitate the learning of this central statistical concept.
authors.affiliation: Mintz and Associates, Downsview, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mintz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ostbye
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000193:education*