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08/08/2019

Hello again!


What is a p value?

P value means probability of an occurrence or an event.

A lot of times in statistics we would like to compare two events. Probability is used to find how many times the occurrence of the event is by chance. Generally the "level of confidence" is kept at 95%, meaning 95% of times, you would like to be sure of the event occurring at least 95% of times.

First, a "Null hypothesis or statement" is decided.

For example,

Drug A and Drug B have *no difference* in efficacy as an analgesic.

You record the Visual Analog Scale score from patients using the two drugs.

Say Drug A score is 20 and Drug B score is 24.

So you compare the two scores with Statistical tests (details we'll discuss later).

And you get a probability value of 0.023.

This means, the chance that the null hypothesis will be rejected if it is true is >95%. And we reject our null hypothesis.

Kindly note: you can always REJECT a null hypothesis. NOT ACCEPT THE OPPOSITE OF THE NULL HYPOTHESIS.

Whenever you think of designing a research paper, one wonders what the research question to be answered is, and in what...
07/08/2019


Whenever you think of designing a research paper, one wonders what the research question to be answered is, and in what way..
to effectively answer it in short is difficult.

For this a very strong Review of Literature is necessary.

A good way to do so will be to open Google and Pubmed parallely.

Then give a very short search query like "cardiac side effects of X anesthetic" or "refractive changes after LASIK".

One needs to open each and every paper after checking the title for relevance. Generally the website will throw the most recent papers on top.
It is good to search till at least 2-3 years back, as you will get relevant references to older papers from these studies only. Also download *MAJOR REVIEW* type articles, which summarise all existing literature for better understanding of holistic concepts.

Mostly looking at the abstract suffices. It is good to save the abstracts by doing *Ctrl+P* and *Save as PDF* or copying the abstract text with Reference on *OneNote*.

Building a Review of Literature is the first step towards any good research paper. It gives you ideas on what question remains unanswered or less explored and how to finally write the manuscript.

Link to Microsoft OneNote download: https://www.onenote.com/download

06/08/2019

Good morning!

How many of you have done an observational study before?
What do you mean by OBSERVATIONAL STUDY?

Well, it is basically any study which will not be involving any sort of active intervention for the sole purpose of the study. You can be an innocent bystander to an already occurring phenomenon around you.
Eg: how many nuts does an average squirrel eat in a day?
How to: To study this, you need to pre-plan the time of the day you need to start locating the squirrels, the number of squirrels in total you want to follow, and for how long you want to follow them, till you are satisfied with the answer.

05/08/2019

What do you mean by indexing of scientific papers?
It is a way by which you can ascertain the authenticity of a paper.
Several predatory journals publish numerous articles which may not be peer reviewed by scientific experts in a particular field and they are published by taking huge sums of money from authors without giving them copyrights to the manuscript.
This hugely generated load of predatory journals articles is mostly unsupervised and unsubstantiated data and should not be relied upon for scientific or clinical decision making..
Some of the well known indexation sites are:
Pubmed/Medline
EBSCO
Europe PubMed
Google scholar
Index Copernicus
Cochrane

05/08/2019

Scientific papers are not freely available most of the time for viewing their full length since they're mostly paid...
Simple solution to this problem:
Goto sci-hub.tw
Enter the DOI number or the PMID number and you can access 90% of full length articles for free..

05/08/2019

Keeping in mind the residents' plight regarding medical research, we want to extend our help in clearing doubts regarding thesis, project and STS related confusions for all of you in any stage of your career (MBBS, MD/MS, DM/MCh)...
Anyone who wishes to participate can put up their queries on this page or send in Inbox...
Let's see how we can take the discussion forward..

Regular updates regarding methodologies in Clinical Research will be put up for everyone's benefit..
Let's begin our collective learning..

22/08/2018

One word. PROUD!

29/06/2015

In addition to research ideas, let us also promote interdepartmental research.. This is something that would truly boost healthy communication between departments as well as broaden our horizons and help promote research oriented thinking

28/06/2015

so people can start posting ideas of what research topics they like.. pl mail me if u want to be an editor of this page. and share kool sites which act as research tool...

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