Evaluación de utilización de los métodos estadísticos en la investigación en salud

Two hundred sixty four papers appeared in Revista Medica de Chile and Revista Chilena de Pediatria between 1983 and 1993 were reviewed. Student's T, Fisher's, and X2 test are the most frequently used statistical methods in 67 percent of papers. Correlation coefficients are used in 10 percent of papers. Multivariate methods are seldom used. Statistical analysis of papers published in Chilean medical journals is restricted to very few methods (AU)