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What's on the web? Statistics for medical students

BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0310389 (Published 01 October 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:0310389
  1. Samantha Chan, fifth year medical student1
  1. 1University of Edinburgh

Mention statistics to the average medical student and chances are the response will be boredom tinged with trepidation. Yet, as doctors, we will encounter data analysed and presented in many different forms and must somehow make sense of it all.

The internet contains lots of statistical resources, including several complete textbooks. However, most of these are almost painful to read: “When the word ‘mean’ is used without a modifier, it can be assumed that it refers to the arithmetic mean….the formula in summation notation is μ=Sx/N,” …

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