Confidence intervals for the mean of a variable taking the values 0, 1 and 2

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2737-2750

  Newcombe, Robert G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 point scale; Confidence interval; Gene frequency; Paired organs

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); HOMOCYSTEINE;

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SCALE UP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0042926562     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1479     Document Type: Article

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