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Patients, Patience, and P Values

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This chapter is written for physicians from the perspective of a physician, in recognition that, of all professionals, we as physicians have the greatest philosophical difficulty coming to grips with the concepts of p values and sampling error. This is nothing to be ashamed of, however, because we were designed for this confusion.

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  1. School of Public Health, University of Texas, 1200 Herman Pressler, 77030, Houston, Texas, USA

    Lemuel A. Moyé MD, Ph.D

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Moyé, L.A. (2000). Patients, Patience, and P Values. In: Statistical Reasoning in Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3292-4_2

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