[HSF] Trials and tribulations

[wftjrtyler at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/2/2009 9:54:31 PM Central Daylight Time, 
tacuff at swbell.net writes:

But as we know and love of the surgical literature, the only piece of data 
that has meaning is the "p value". Afterall one has to tailor ones level of 
interest to the reader. If only I could master that trick.

As Dr. Frater has inferred,the "p value" is intellectually seductive, but 
obfuscates the difference between statistical significance and clinical relevance 
     bill
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