Understanding statistics: other resources
If you want to improve your understanding of statistics, BMJ Learning has a couple of online modules on the subject.
BMJ Learning provides high-quality CME/CPD and postgraduate training for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats.
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The statistics modules include:
Understanding statistics
This BMJ Learning module will help you understand:
- That the same trial results can be presented in different ways
- The strengths and weaknesses of using ratios and differences to describe results
- How to calculate a number needed to treat (NNT) from published papers.
Understanding statistics 2: is there a significant difference?
This BMJ Learning module will help you to:
- Appreciate when the results of a trial are statistically significant
- Understand the difference between P values and confidence intervals
- Determine whether an important difference has been excluded between the treatment and control arms of a trial.