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These are extensions of the more conventional randomised controlled trials which usually seek to find...

OK this not a normal entry, it's a cry from the heart! Details So numeracy is ability...

These are very simple ideas coming out of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) world and...

Crucial parameter of any simple screening design: the probability that someone scoring below the screening...

Really "non-parametric statistical methods". Statistical methods that don't rely on assumptions about population distributions,...

This, essentially the same as "inferential testing" (q.v.), is the paradigm which has dominated the...

This is one of the fundamental building blocks of the "Null Hypothesis Significance Test" (NHST)...

See anonymisation!

[Go to the entry about box plots before this if you are not familiar with...

Very often therapy change data is "nested": sessional observations within each client, each client within...

See Placebo effect.

Nomothetic measures are ones on which everyone has a value that can be compared with...