Schoonjans F, Zalata A, Depuydt C E, Comhaire F H
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1995 Dec;48(3):257-62. doi: 10.1016/0169-2607(95)01703-8.
In recent years, the use and abuse of statistics in the medical literature has extensively been reviewed. Amongst others, the importance of the P-value has been challenged and the use of misleading graphics, including 3-dimensional displays, has been criticized. The ease of access to more complex statistical procedures, since the introduction of several statistical software packages for personal computers, has been identified as one of the factors involved in the misuse of statistics. Therefore, we have developed a new computer program that includes those statistical procedures commonly encountered in the medical literature and in statistical textbooks for medical researchers. More complex statistical analyses are not implemented in the software. If researchers with limited statistical training require more sophisticated statistical analyses, they should refer to a statistician, not to a more complete statistical software package.
近年来，医学文献中统计数据的使用和滥用情况已得到广泛审视。其中，P值的重要性受到了挑战，包括三维显示在内的误导性图表的使用也受到了批评。自为个人电脑引入多个统计软件包以来，获取更复杂统计程序的便捷性被认为是统计数据滥用所涉及的因素之一。因此，我们开发了一个新的计算机程序，其中包含医学文献和医学研究统计教科书中常见的那些统计程序。该软件未实现更复杂的统计分析。统计培训有限的研究人员若需要更复杂的统计分析，应咨询统计学家，而非使用更完整的统计软件包。
