Meeting the assumptions of statistical tests: an important and often forgotten step to reporting valid results

Ferreira1,3,b, Cecilia Maria Patino1,2,a Juliana Carvalho

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37562018000000303

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Meeting the assumptions of statistical tests: an important and often forgotten step to reporting valid results

Atender as premissas dos testes estatísticos: um passo importante e muitas vezes negligenciado na comunicação de resultados válidos

Cecilia Maria Patino1,2,a Juliana Carvalho Ferreira1,3,b

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37562018000000303

1. Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research-MECOR-program, American Thoracic Society/Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
3. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil.
a. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5742-2157; b. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6548-1384