Medical Statistics – Mathematics or Oracle? Farewell Lecture

Medical Statistics – Mathematics or Oracle? Farewell Lecture

Certainty is rare in medicine. This is a direct consequence of the individuality of each and every human being and the reason why we need medical statistics. However, statistics have their pitfalls, too. Fig. 1 shows that the suicide rate peaks in youth, while in Fig. 2 the rate is highest in midlif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaus, Wilhelm
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2005-06-01
Series:GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie
Subjects:
medical statistics
biometry
suicide-risk
hypothesis testing
diagnostic investigation
correctness of a statistical test result
multiple testing
a priori formulated hypotheses
pure versus whole truth
historical oracles
personal remarks
Online Access:http://www.egms.de/en/journals/mibe/2005-1/mibe000008.shtml

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