title: Back to basics: an introduction to statistics.
abstract: In the second in the series, Professor Ruud Halfens and Dr Judith Meijers give an overview of statistics, both descriptive and inferential. They describe the first principles of statistics, including some relevant inferential tests.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services Research, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, the Netherlands. r.halfens@maastichtuniversity.nl
authors.forename: R J G
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Halfens
authors.forename: J M M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Meijers
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D018401:Sample Size; D016008:Statistical Distributions; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*