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The baseline characteristics did not differ significantly

Auteurs: Peter Fayers, Madeleine King

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 8/2008

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Last week one of us (P.F.) received a message from a colleague: “Thank you for the analyses, but you forgot the P-values on Table 1”. Well, they had not been “forgotten”. While the first note in this series referred to the misleading use of P-values when reporting correlation coefficients during the evaluation of instruments [1], P-values can also be inappropriate or misleading in other situations. Herein we describe an example that is frequently encountered when reviewing manuscripts about randomised clinical trials with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes. …

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Titel: The baseline characteristics did not differ significantly
Auteurs: Peter Fayers
Madeleine King
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer Netherlands
Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 8/2008
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-008-9382-x

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