Descriptive Statistics: The Specification of Statistical Measures and Their Presentation in Tables and Graphs--Part 7 of a Series on Evaluation of Scientific Publications.

Autor: Spriestersbach, Albert, Röhrig, Bernd, Prel, Jean-Baptist du, Gerhold-Ay, Aslihan, Blettner, Maria
Zdroj: Deutsches Ärzteblatt International; 9/4/2009, Vol. 106 Issue 36, p2-2, 1p, 3 Diagrams, 4 Charts, 4 Graphs
Abstrakt: The article reports on the use of descriptive statistics in the healthcare industry. It notes that medical data are based from statistical units and the summarization of the data is the aim of descriptive statistics in order to provide a clear information on the data collected. It also discusses the different parameters used in a case study, the types of parameters, graphs and statistical measures.
Databáze: Supplemental Index