Slides and handout

• Introductory biostatistics: Understanding and reporting research results including p-values and confidence intervals - delivered as part of the Research Skills Seminar Series 2019 by the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS), Department of Health WA.

Basic Statistics for Clinicians

A series of articles published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

• Basic statistics for clinicians: 1. Hypothesis testing (1995) by G. Guyatt, R. Jaeschke, N. Heddle, D. Cook, H. Shannon, & S. Walter
• Basic statistics for clinicians: 2. Interpreting study results: confidence intervals (1995) by G. Guyatt, R. Jaeschke, N. Heddle, D. Cook, H. Shannon, & S. Walter
• Basic statistics for clinicians: 3. Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association (1995) by R. Jaeschke, G. Guyatt, H. Shannon, S. Walter, D. Cook, & N. Heddle
• Basic statistics for clinicians: 4. Correlation and regression (1995) by G. Guyatt, S. Walter, H. Shannon, D. Cook, R. Jaeschke, & N. Heddle

Common statistical topics in health research

• Understanding measures of treatment effect in clinical trials (2005) by A. K. Akobeng
• Interpreting estimates of treatment effects: implications for managed care (2008) by S. V. Faraone
• The Numbers Needed to Treat and Harm (NNT, NNH) statistics: What they tell us and what they do not (2015) by C. Andrade
• Relative vs. absolute measures of benefit and risk: What's the difference? (2010) by L. Citrome
• Odds Ratio – StatPearls (2022) by S. Tenny & M. R. Hoffman
• Relative Risk – StatPearls (2022) by S. Tenny & M. R. Hoffman
• Risk differences and rate differences (2018) by W. W. LaMorte

Statistics in meta-analysis

• The 5 min meta-analysis: understanding how to read and interpret a forest plot (2022) by Y. Chang, M. R. Phillips, R. H. Guymer, et al.
• Mean difference, standardized mean difference (SMD), and their use in meta-analysis: As simple as it gets (2020) by C. Andrade  
• Which is more generalizable, powerful and interpretable in meta-analyses, mean difference or standardized mean difference? (2014) by N. Takeshima, T. Sozu, A. Tajika, et al.
• What is heterogeneity and is it important? (2007) by J. Fletcher

Journals