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Truth in Numbers

Along one wall of Joseph K. Haseman's office stands a floor-to-ceiling bookcase lined with identical powder blue books. These are Haseman's pride and joy: 500 technical reports representing rodent car-cinogenicity assays conducted over the past 20 years for the National Toxicology Program (NTP). As director of statistical consulting for the NIEHS, Haseman is responsible for the statistical inte...

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Study Analysis: Revelation of Truth, or Murder by Numbers?

What type of analyses are we to expect when we read a study that attempts to measure success or failure of a specific spine procedure? Most analyses are divided into descriptive and analytical statistics, which should be clearly described in the methods section of a study. Descriptive statistics are most frequently used to provide general information about the patients and factors that may be r...

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