I think the paper you may have in mind is
Matthews JNS, Altman DG, Campbell MJ, Royston JP. Analysis of serial
measurements in medical research. British Medical Journal 1990;300:230-235.
A scanned version is at
http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~njnsm/medfac/docsunres/serialm.pdf
Doug
At 11:28 18/04/2005, Dr Philip Sedgwick wrote:
>Dear All
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>I know this is a long short but here goes.
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>I am looking for a paper in the BMJ from around 1993 to 1994 that
>discussed the use of summary statistics when one has repeated measures
>of a variable e.g. biochemical marker. In particular it discussed the
>pitfalls of multiple significance testing at each time point.
>Any help greatfully received.
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>Thanks in anticipation
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>Philip Sedgwick
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