Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There are books that are entitled, "Readings in ...." >There was one book of readings called "Statistics in Medicine," >and there is a journal by that name. >... >One of the medical journals published a guideline to >the realistic use of statistics. I think I cited in a year or two >ago in a stats-group, if that is not where I learned of it. >I tried, just now, to find it by using groups.google -- apparently, >the journal was *not* NEJM, and not JAMA, but here is >one reference text that came up a bunch of times: > >Bailar, John C. III and Mosteller, Frederick, ed. (1992) >Medical Uses of Statistics, 2nd Edition. Boston MA: >New England Journal of Medicine Books. > > >Okay, the key word was "evidence based medicine" which >I found several times in posts by Steve Simon. And the BMJ. > >> Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, David Sackett >> ... >> There is a lot of good stuff for free at the British Medical Journal >> web site: www.bmj.com.
Thanks for the search tip and the references. Peter . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
