Methods for confidence interval estimation of a ratio parameter with application to location quotients

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Beyene, Joseph ^a,b   Moineddin, Rahim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INCIDENCE; LOCATION QUOTIENT; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744435648     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-5-32     Document Type: Article

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