Statistical tools in published articles of a public health journal in 2013 and 2014: bibliometric cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Research projects use statistical resources to express in numerical or graphic terms different magnitudes like frequencies, differences or associations.

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to describe the statistics tools utilization, with special emphasis in the use of conventional statistical tests and confidence intervals, to communicate results in a renowned public health peer reviewed journal in Colombia.

Methods: We included the 84 articles published in the journal between 2013 and 2014.