How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls.

How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-Statistician. I: Different Types of Data Need Different Statistical Tests

How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests.

As medicine leans increasingly on mathematics no clinician can afford to leave the statistical aspects of a paper to the "experts." If you are numerate, try the "Basic Statistics for Clinicians" series in the Canadian Medical Association Journal,1 2 3 4 or a more mainstream statistical textbook.5 If, on the other hand, you find statistics impossibly difficult, this article and the next in this ...

Statistical pitfalls in medical research.

In conducting and reporting of medical research, there are some common pitfalls in using statistical methodology which may result in invalid inferences being made. This paper is aimed to highlight to inexperienced statisticians or non-statistician some of the common statistical pitfalls encountered when using statistics to interpret data in medical research. We also comment on good practices to...

The Place of Desecuritization in the Relations between South Korea and the Islamic World

Objective: South Korea’s relations with the countries of the Muslim world can be seen as having mutual and common interests for both sides. Relationships that are remarkable in the context of relations between a middle power and a great civilization, but in many cases have been challenged due to the considerations of great powers, especially the securitization of issues in the ...

Turkish - Iranian Relations: Prospects and Uncertainty

Iran and Turkey are two key regional actors that separately play a role in multiple geographies in terms of both geographical weight and tenets of identity. Geographically speaking, these two countries are simultaneously influential in political-security issues in different areas such as the Fertile Crescent. When it comes to identity, by making a link between their principles and values to reg...