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How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls.

. BMJ, 315 (7105): 422--425 (August 1997)

Abstract

It is possible to be seriously misled by taking the statistical competence (and/or the intellectual honesty) of authors for granted. Some common errors committed (deliberately or inadvertently) by the authors of papers are given in the final box.

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