title: Are you statistically literate? A basic overview of statistics.
abstract: The relationship between high oxygen levels and blindness in small preterm infants is common knowledge in today's NI CU. However 60 years ago, tiny babies were routinely given oxygen without knowledge of the relationship between the concentration of oxygen being administered and the subsequent outcome of the infant being blind.1 Today's knowledge is the result of research methods and statistical techniques that identified this relationship and predicted the consequences of high concentrations of oxygen administration.
authors.affiliation: Graduate faculty for the online FNP Program, Maryville University, St Louis, MO, USA. deborah.raines.phd@gmail.com
authors.forename: Deborah A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Raines
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000193:education; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000193:education*