title: Statistical methodologies in psychopharmacology: a review.
abstract: There has been a greatly increased interest in statistical methods in the psychiatric research and its applications over the past few decades, in parallel with advances in computers and statistical software. This review aims to describe the main topics related to statistical methods in psychopharmacology, namely nature of statistics in medicine, problems in data analysis, statistical modelling, developments in statistical technology, statistical reporting and meta-analysis.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Group, University of Oulu, Finland. pentti.nieminen@oulu.fi
authors.forename: Pentti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nieminen
authors.forename: Jouko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miettunen
authors.forename: Hannu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koponen
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Isohanni
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012107:Research Design