An introduction to medical statistics for health care professionals: describing and presenting data.
This article is the first in a series of three that will give health care professionals a sound and helpful introduction to medical statistics. This article covers three main areas: description of the different types of data available, appropriate summary measures used to describe different data types, and methods used to present these data.
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Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, North Staffordshire, UK. e.thomas@keele.ac.uk