The Importance of Statistical Analysis in the Field of Rehabilitation
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 292
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistics and operational research; rehabilitation; health statistics; data analysis; Bayesian methods
Interests: neuromodulation; neurorehabilitation; new technologies; physiotherapy; motor control; childhood; disability; environment; neurodevelopment; therapeutic strategies; motor retardation; risk factors; navigation; gait; walking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Statistical methods applied to health data entail numerous challenges and problems that remain to be solved. In rehabilitation, statistics is one of the main tools that helps clinicians in making decisions about the effectiveness of treatments. The data obtained from clinical trials, systematic reviews and surveys always require a thorough statistical evaluation, both with well-known methods and with others under research. Moreover, any study attempting to provide novel insights for health improvement, or those which investigate risk factors, must include a rigorous statistical analysis of the observed data to support its conclusions.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together research papers, mainly with an applied focus, which provide a glimpse into the usefulness of statistics in rehabilitation and related fields. Both parametric and nonparametric methods, as well as frequentist and Bayesian methods, will be welcome in papers providing data evaluation and statistical applications to the broad field of rehabilitation.
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Quintela-del-Río
Dr. Verónica Robles-García
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- statistical methods
- rehabilitation
- physical therapy
- health sciences
- data analysis
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