Congratulations, you now have some results to share with the world! This part comes with some good news, and some, not bad news, but perhaps a little complicated. The good news is that the results section does not require interpretations or discussions of any kind. What you need to do is to simply present your results. Although, it is not always simple or straight forward to choose appropriate figures and tables to illustrate your findings.

A few things to consider:

• The absolute first thing you do, is to go back to the beginning; with the results you now have produced, have you answered your research questions?
• You want to summarize the most important results in the text. Although, be careful – do not simply list what you can already see and read in your tables and figures – make it relevant.
• When choosing tables and/or figures that best will describe your results, look to published articles that have used similar methods as you have for your thesis. Be inspired, but not restricted to, the way others have chosen to illustrate similar findings. As they say, various strokes for different folks. Discuss with your supervisor and do what feels right for you and your results.
• Do not include a figure if you have already said it all with a table. We are all very impressed that you can manage to do forest plots and coefficients plots, but it is not so impressive if you are just over-egging the pudding. By doing too much, you might spoil something that was perfect to begin with.

Table 1 – Descriptive statistics

This is an example of a table that provides information about the study variables.

Table 2 – Cox regression analysis

Below is an example of a table that presents information on the Cox regression analyses.

Table 3 – Interaction analysis

Here we have a table displaying the interaction analysis for this practical example.

Figure 1 – Adjusted predictive margins with 95% confidence intervals

Figure 1. Adjusted predictive margins with 95% confidence intervals.

Note Tables and figures must be consecutively numbered in accordance with their appearance in the text, but remember that tables and figures have their separate series of numbers. Table captions are placed above tables and figure captions are placed below figures.