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Resources
Communication -
Critical analysis skills
Assessing literature
The British Medical Journal series on finding and assessing medical articles:Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
Papers that report drug trials
Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Also see Evidence based medicine
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Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet (University of Alberta)
Evaluating and Citing Websites (University of Ottawa)
Student's Guide to Research with the WWW (St. Louis University)
Towards quality management of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering of information (Br Med J 1998;317:1496-1502.)
Health-related Web resources-implications for healthcare (Br Med J 1996;312:3-4 .)
Internet Detective, a tutorial from the University of Bristol on evaluating Web sites. Includes interactive quizzes and free registration.
Evaluating Web resources (American Library Association)
Evaluating Web resources (2-Learn)
Evaluating Web resources (Health on the Net)
Evaluating Web resources (Widener University)
Virtual Medic (Bristol University, UK)
How to read scientific literature - User's Guides to evidence-based practice
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Statistics
British Medical Journal series:
Statistics for the non-statistician
Also see correctionCanadian Medical Association collection on stats & research methods
Hyperstat Online , an online textbook by David Lane of Rice University also has many useful links.
p values (Cohen J. The earth is round (p<.05). American Psychologist 1994;49:997-1003)
Sample size
- Java applets for power and statistical size calculation (Russ lenth, Univ. of Iowa)
- Power and sample size calculations
- Small sample size calculation (Six Sigma)
- Sample size calculator
- Statistical rules of thumb (about sample size)
Introductory Statistics (David Stockburger, Southwest Missouri State University)
Stat notes (North Carolina State University)
Statistical significance testing
Statistical significance explained
Statistics (GraphPad - easy-to-understand mini-tutorials on p values, outliers, etc.)
Surfstat (Keith Dear, University of Newcastle, Australia)
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