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Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, December 2014
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Title
Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-14-135
Pubmed ID
Authors

Xiang Wan, Wenqian Wang, Jiming Liu, Tiejun Tong

Abstract

In systematic reviews and meta-analysis, researchers often pool the results of the sample mean and standard deviation from a set of similar clinical trials. A number of the trials, however, reported the study using the median, the minimum and maximum values, and/or the first and third quartiles. Hence, in order to combine results, one may have to estimate the sample mean and standard deviation for such trials.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 2276 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 274 12%
Researcher 262 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 245 11%
Student > Bachelor 234 10%
Other 134 6%
Other 419 18%
Unknown 714 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 647 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 99 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 83 4%
Engineering 79 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 71 3%
Other 444 19%
Unknown 859 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2024.
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#836,432
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Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#71
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#10,505
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#2
of 25 outputs
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