10.3205/09GMDS104
Lüdtke, Rainer
Rainer
Lüdtke
Witt, Claudia
Claudia
Witt
Willich, Stefan N.
Stefan N.
Willich
Ostermann, Thomas
Thomas
Ostermann
Are the effects of homeopathy attributable to a statistical artefact?
German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
2009
ConferencePaper
Uncontrolled cohort studies
homeopathy
regression-to-the-mean
610 Medical sciences; Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie Und Epidemiologie
Biometrie Und Epidemiologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Medizinische Informatik
2009-09-02
2009
en
urn:nbn:de:0183-09gmds1040
09gmds104
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54. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (gmds)
Background: Several outcome studies, mostly designed as uncontrolled cohort studies, have found that an individualised homeopathic treatment has marked beneficial health effects, be them specific or unspecific. These results however are likely to be biased by regression to the mean (RTM), a statistical[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
54. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (gmds)