Appreciation of medical treatments through confidence intervals

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1545-1570

  Apolloni, B ^a   Bassis, S ^a   Gaito, S ^a   Malchiodi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithmic inference; Confidence intervals; Confidence regions; Learning functions; Linear regression; Nonlinear regression; Twisting argument

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACCURACY; BIOSTATISTICS; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249860108     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161207780765891     Document Type: Review

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