Construction of confidence limits about effect measures: A general approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1693-1702

  Zou, G Y ^a,b   Donner, A ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence interval; Generalized confidence interval; Lognormal; Risk ratio

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ASTHMA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ODDS RATIO; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 42449103178     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3095     Document Type: Article

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