Nature guideline 中山大学 循证医学.pptxVIP

Statistical Guideline of Nature Ji-Qian FangSchool of Public HealthSun Yat-Sen University2008.10 ;An editorial of Nature Medicine ?(2005) Statistically significant : “Some of the articles published in Nature and Nature Medicine were criticized due to the deficiency in statistical issues”.;What happened?;Independent statistical “audit”;;Checklist of statistical adequacy ;;To have an 85% chance of detecting as significant (at the two sided 5% level) a five point difference between the two groups in the mean SF- 36 general health perception scores, with an assumed standard deviat