Statistical Question

Statistical tests for independent groups: time to event data

BMJ 2012; 345 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e5257 (Published 8 August 2012)
Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e5257

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9 August 2012

"Time-to-event" is a compound modifier of "data" and deserves to be hyphenated for readabilty and the avoidance of ambiguity.

This used to be the practice in the one-hundred-and-seventy-two-year-old BMJ.

Competing interests: None declared

John Doherty, Retired

IAEA, Vienna

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