Table 4

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+

P-value
p ≤ 0.05
0.05 <p ≤ 0.10
p > 0.10
Total
Data-set





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

+ 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