PEDIATRICS Vol. 71 No. 5 May 1983, pp. 865
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Illegal Number Crunching

JESSIE R. GROOTHUIS MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Ave, Denver, CO 80262

In Reply.—

The authors would like to thank Student for bringing to our attention the point that utilizing mean and standard deviation to analyze Apgar scores is not appropriate. We further feel that this information would be of benefit to other investigators, as a great deal of analysis is done on such nonarithmetic operations as clinical scoring systems and staging of malignancies (as two examples). This point may therefore be as enlightening to other investigators as it was to us.