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Comparison between the made up data-sets and 2500 real random samples from 637 newborn boys of the p-values of the correlation between GA and birth weight+ |
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| P-value |
p ≤ 0.05 |
0.05 <p ≤ 0.10 |
p > 0.10 |
Total |
| Data-set |
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| Fabricated |
22 (64.7%) |
1 (2.9%) |
11 (32.4%) |
34 |
| Samples from the Real data-set |
109 (4.4%) |
113 (4.5%) |
2278 (91.1%) |
2500 |
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+ data-sets with p-value ≤ 0.05 were compared with p-value > 0.05, (Fisher's exact test, p < 0.0001) | ||||
Akhtar-Danesh and Dehghan-Kooshkghazi BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003 3:18 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-3-18 |
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