A brief note on overlapping confidence intervals

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 194-195

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b,e   Hux, Janet E ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of Toronto ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0036633910     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.125015     Document Type: Article

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