Statistics in medical papers.

J R Coll Physicians Lond · 1977 · PMC5368714 · PMID 323475

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a significant trendno p-value reported

However, if our hypothesis was that there was a significant trend in the prevalence of bronchitis by age then we should use the x2 test for trend (Armitage, 1971), which is quite different.

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