• East Afr J Public Health · Apr 2009

    Statistical problems in medical research.

    • U M Okeh.
    • Department of Industrial Mathematics and Applied Statistics, Ebonyi State University, Nigeria. umokeh1@yahoo.com
    • East Afr J Public Health. 2009 Apr 1;6 Suppl(1):1-7.

    AbstractMany medical specialties have reviewed the drawbacks of statistical methods in medical diagnosis in specialized areas in their journals. To my knowledge this has not been done in general practice. Given the main role of a general practitioner as a biostatistician, I thought it would be of interest to enumerate statistical problems in assessing methods of medical diagnosis in general terms. In conducting and reporting of medical research, there are some common problems in using statistical methodology which may result in invalid inferences being made. This paper is aimed to highlight to inexperienced statisticians, medical practitioners and personnel as well as other non-statisticians some of the common statistical problems encountered when using statistics to interpret data in medical research. I also comment on good practices to avoid some of these problems.

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