The International Journal of Clinical Practice has made available a special free issue on the use and abuse of statistics.You can read the Editorial by Associate Editor Les Citrome, Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine: Nine out of ten doctors prefer Camels! Three brief essays regarding how we use and abuse statistics,and also read the articles:
1.Death by confounding: bias and mortality S. N. Ghaemi, S. B. Thommi
2. Statistics in drug advertising: what they reveal is suggestive what they hide is vital J. Lexchin
3. The population attributable fraction and confounding: buyer beware D. F. Williamson
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