Statistical methodologies in psychopharmacology: a review.
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.
Nieminen
Pentti
P
Medical Informatics Group, University of Oulu, Finland. pentti.nieminen@oulu.fi
Miettunen
Jouko
J
Koponen
Hannu
H
Isohanni
Matti
M
D000818:Animals; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012107:Research Design