Library Guides: Evidence-Based Medicine: A Guide: Understanding Statistics

How to Read a paper

The British Medical Journal offers a free series of articles in the explaining how to read and interpret different kinds of research papers.

How to read a paper series
Topics include: qualitative research, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, economic analysis, papers that report diagnostic or screening tests, papers that report drug trials, statistics for the non-statistician, assessing the methodological quality of a study, deciding what the paper is about, the Medline database

Basic statistics for clinicians: 1. Hypothesis testing.
Guyatt G, Jaeschke R, Heddle N, Cook D, Shannon H, Walter S. Basic statistics for clinicians: 1. hypothesis testing. CMAJ. 1995 Jan 1;152(1):27-32.
Basic statistics for clinicians: 2. Interpreting study results: confidence intervals.
Guyatt G, Jaeschke R, Heddle N, Cook D, Shannon H, Walter S. Basic statistics for clinicians: 2. interpreting study results: Confidence intervals. CMAJ. 1995 Jan 15;152(2):169-73.
Basic statistics for clinicians: 3. Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association.
Jaeschke R, Guyatt G, Shannon H, Walter S, Cook D, Heddle N. Basic statistics for clinicians: 3. assessing the effects of treatment: Measures of association. CMAJ. 1995 Feb 1;152(3):351-7.
Basic statistics for clinicians: 4. Correlation and regression.
Guyatt G, Walter S, Shannon H, Cook D, Jaeschke R, Heddle N. Basic statistics for clinicians: 4. correlation and regression. CMAJ. 1995 Feb 15;152(4):497-504.