Skin Statistics: Basic and Applied.

J. Bowman. Presented at the New Jersey Skin Club Seminar. Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, New Jersey. September 25, 2007.

Abstract/Outline

We can not make everyone a statistician, however, what we can accomplish is to give some fundamental aspects of how you should prepare to interact with your statistician and some background statistical material.

This talk will provide an understanding to the team approach to designing studies, discuss ways to get involved with your data (i.e. don't leave it all to the statistician), explain the meaning of a significance test and continue to re-iterate the message to "Involve your local statistician".

The outline for the talk is as follows:

1. Study Design
2. Data Description
3. The essential nature of a Significance Test
4. Non-Significant p-values
5. Statistical Tools available
6. Types of statistics used in skin testing
7. What can go wrong when you choose the wrong test? (and don't use a statistician)
8. Clinical vs Statistical Significance