RT Book, Section
A1 Portney, Leslie G.
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ID 1186213533
T1 Descriptive Statistics
T2 Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Evidence-Based Practice, 4e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB F. A. Davis Company
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803661134
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1186213533
RD 2024/04/19
AB In  the  investigation  of  most  clinical  research  questions,  some  form  of  quantitative  data  will  be  collected.  Initially  these  data  exist  in  raw  form,  which  means  that  they  are  nothing  more  than  a  compilation  of  numbers  representing  empirical  observations  from  a  group  of  individuals.  For  these  data  to  be  useful  as  measures  of  group  performance,  they  must  be  organized,  summarized,  and  analyzed,  so  that  their  meaning  can  be  communicated.  These  are  the  functions  of  the  branch  of  mathematics  called  statistics.