Finding and Using Health Statistics

2. Common Terms and Equations

Overview

Basic terms and concepts used to collect and present data are essential to using health statistics and to assessing their quality.

This section gives an overview of some of the basics of statistical research as it relates to health care, including sampling, bias, validity, dependent and independent variables, age-adjustment (including direct standardization), confidence intervals and more.

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