The number needed to treat, that is, the average number of patients a clinician needs to treat with a particular therapy to prevent one bad outcome,1 is a translation into clinical terms of the ...

Confidence intervals show the likelihood a data range contains the true mean, aiding investment decisions. A wider interval suggests lower estimate accuracy, influencing market and risk analysis ...

Confidence Interval Estimate: a range of values so constructed that a specified proportion of the intervals costructed that way would contain the true value of a parameter. Critical Value: a point on ...

For survival probabilities with censored data, Rothman (1978, Journal of Chronic Diseases 31, 557-560) has recommended the use of quadratic confidence limits based on the assumption that the product ...

There is increased interest in eliminating health disparities in the United States and worldwide. Broadly defined, health disparities refer to preventable inequalities in health status, such as cancer ...

The linkage disequilibrium method is currently the most widely used single sample estimator of genetic effective population size. The commonly used software packages come with two options, referred to ...

https://doi.org/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.128.0203 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.128.0203 We propose a new method for constructing ...

A confidence interval is a statistical concept that shows how likely it is that a range based on a sample of a population contains the mean, or the actual figure, for that data set. It’s useful when a ...

This applet allows users to drag sliders to change the population proportion, confidence level and sample size. The applet helps users visualize the meaning of the phrase "C% confidence," by showing ...