Physiological Research. - : Fyziologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.
- ISSN 0862-8408
Roč. 52, č. 1 (2003), s. 39-43
Number of pages
5 s.
Language
eng - English
Country
CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords
statistics ; usage ; biomedical journals
Subject RIV
EC - Immunology
R&D Projects
GA310/03/1381 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
CEZ
AV0Z5052915 - UMG-J
Annotation
In this paper we analyze the use of statistics and associated problems, in three Czech biological journals in the year 2000. We investigated 23 articles Folia Biologica, 60 articles in Folia Microbiologica, and 88 articles in Physiological Research. The highest frequency of publications with statistical content have used descriptive statistics and t-test. The most usual mistake concerns the absence of reference about the used statistical software and insufficient description of the data. We have compared our results with the results of similar studies in some other medical journals. The use of important statistical methods is comparable with those used in most medical journals, the proportion of articles, in which the applied method is described insufficiently is moderately low
