The article, “Appropriate statistical testing of quality of life scores from children with asthma and their caregivers” published in Feb. 2012 in the journal, Open Access Medical Statistics in February 2012. Researchers investigated the degree to which common statistical methods used to test differences in Quality of Life scores and examines whether nonparametric approaches may be more appropriate. Primary author, John Myers, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, collaborated with Robert Steiner, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, Yu-Ting Chen, MPH, Robert Esterhay, MD, Associate Professor, and James Legleiter of Passport Health Plan.

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