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Specific guide to this web site for:

 1.  Medical School
      Educators 
      in Statistics

 2.  Medical Students

 3.  Science media writers

 4.  High School & College
     Statistic Teachers

   Misadventures:

1. Harvard led MI study

2. JACC study 
   (J. of Amer. Coll.
   Cardio.)

3. NEJM cath study

4. Amer. J. of Cardio.
    review of literature

5. ALLHAT
    controversy 

6. Oat bran study

7. Pregnancy & Alcohol

8. Are Geminis really
    different?
      
9. Columbia 'Miracle' Study  
                                                 

Additional Topics:

Celebrex

Limitations of Meta-Analyses

Large Randomized Clinical Trials

Tale of Two Large
Trials

Advocate meta-analyses

Network meta-analyses

Roubenoff RA, Roubenoff R. Letter to the Editor, Oat Bran and Serum Cholesterol.  New England Journal of Medicine 1990; 320:1746-47.

“The authors have managed to confuse the American public further with a poorly designed and underpowered trial that draws erroneous conclusions.”

Burris, J. Letter to the Editor, Oat Bran and Serum Cholesterol. New England Journal of Medicine 1990; 320:1746-47.

“What does a small … study of dietitians with desirable cholesterol levels … tell us about the population of the American public at risk?"

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