title: An introduction to medical statistics for health care professionals: describing and presenting data.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, North Staffordshire, UK. e.thomas@keele.ac.uk
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thomas