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Education And Debate

Forest plots: trying to see the wood and the trees

BMJ 2001; 322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1479 (Published 16 June 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;322:1479

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Logrank?

Dear Sir,

In column 4 of figure 2 of the above article under the
heading of `beta blocker deaths' and above `observed-expected' the word
`logrank' appears.Surely this is inappropriate and confusing,or am I
missing something?

I should also have add that the percentage of deaths for the Wilcox
control group study should be 6.3 rather than 8.9.

Yours sincerely,

Alan C.C.Gibbs
No competing interests.

Competing interests: No competing interests

31 August 2001
Alan Gibbs
lecturer in medical statistics
centre for cancer epidemiology christie hospital kinnaird rd withington manchester m20 4ql