Why we need confidence intervals

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 554-556

  Altman, Douglas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAIN; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 23944464737     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7911-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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