ABSTRACT

In this section we have given five real-life examples of how researchers use statistical techniques to describe and analyze their work.

The extracts have been taken from research papers published in the British Medical Journal (reproduced with permission of The BMJ Publishing Group). If you want to see the original papers, you can download them from the BMJ website https://www.bmj.com/

If you wish, you can use this part to test what you have learnt:

• First, go through the abstracts and results and note down what statistical techniques have been used.