Estimate of standard deviation for a log-transformed variable using arithmetic means and standard deviations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2723-2736

  Quan, Hui ^a   Zhang, Ji ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Confidence interval; Delta method; Log normal distribution; Power calculation

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; CELECOXIB; MORPHINE; PLACEBO; ROFECOXIB;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PROCESS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCALE UP; SPINE STABILIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0042425842     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1525     Document Type: Article

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