Detecting the skewness of data from the five-number summary and its application in meta-analysis
Detecting the skewness of data from the five-number summary and its application in meta-analysis
For clinical studies with continuous outcomes, when the data are potentially skewed, researchers may choose to report the whole or part of the five-number summary (the sample median, the first and third quartiles, and the minimum and maximum values) rather than the sample mean and standard deviation. In the recent …