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Published on November 11, 2013 | http://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2013.10.5826

Statistics for the faint of heart – how to display your data

Estadística para aterrorizados: recomendaciones para describir sus datos

Ricardo Aris, Felipe Martínez

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Ricardo Aris

Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Felipe Martínez

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Citation Aris R, Martínez F. Statistics for the faint of heart – how to display your data. Medwave 2013;13(10):e5826 doi: 10.5867/medwave.2013.10.5826

Submission date 13/10/2013

Acceptance date 08/11/2013

Publication date 11/11/2013

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