Hood of the Truck Statistics for Food Animal Practitioners

Autor: Barrett D. Slenning
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice. 22:149-170
ISSN: 0749-0720
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2005.11.002
Popis: This article offers some tips on working with statistics and develops four relatively simple procedures to deal with most kinds of data with which veterinarians work. The criterion for a procedure to be a "Hood of the Truck Statistics" (HOT Stats) technique is that it must be simple enough to be done with pencil, paper, and a calculator. The goal of HOT Stats is to have the tools available to run quick analyses in only a few minutes so that decisions can be made in a timely fashion. The discipline allows us to move away from the all-too-common guess work about effects and differences we perceive following a change in treatment or management. The techniques allow us to move toward making more defensible, credible, and more quantifiably "risk-aware" real-time recommendations to our clients.
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