Medical Statistics Series: Inferential Statistics (Part-II)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to provide detailed information of application of different inferential statistical methods and interpretation of its outcome values. The following are the general steps for statistical analysis: formulate a hypothesis, select an appropriate statistical test according to the objective of study, prepare data for analysis, summarize with appropriate measure of descriptive statistics, check of tests, run the analysis, tabulate the results and their interpretation.

Keywords

• Parametric test
• one sample t-test
• Independent t-test
• Paired t-test
• one way ANOVA
• Z-test of proportion