TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 2. How to Summarize Data A1 - Glantz, Stanton A. PY - 2012 T2 - Primer of Biostatistics, 7e AB - An investigator collecting data generally has two goals: to obtain descriptive information about the population from which the sample was drawn and to test hypotheses about that population. We focus here on the first goal: to summarize data collected on a single variable in a way that best describes the larger, unobserved population. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57410241 ER -