Background: Medical practitioners have had to learn more and more statistics not only to perform studies but more importantly, to interpret the medical literature and apply new findings to practice. We believe that because of a lack of formal training in statistics, the prevalence of some common errors is simply because of a lack of knowledge and awareness about these errors, which frequently leads to the misinterpretation of study results.

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如何用统计数字说谎

背景：医生必须学习越来越多的统计数据，不仅是为了进行研究，更重要的是为了解释医学文献并将新发现应用于实践。我们认为，由于缺乏正规的统计学培训，一些常见错误的流行仅仅是因为对这些错误缺乏了解和认识，经常导致对研究结果的误解。