Confidence interval construction for proportion difference in small-sample paired studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 3565-3579

  Tang, Man Lai ^a   Tang, Nian Sheng ^b   Chan, Ivan S F ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate exact method; Exact unconditional method; Risk difference; Score statistic; Test based confidence interval

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 28244434021     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2216     Document Type: Article

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