Confidence interval or p-value? Part 4 of a series on evaluation of scientific publications;Konfidenzintervall oder p-wert? Teil 4 der serie zur bewertung wissenschaftlicher publikationen

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 106, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 335-339

  Du Prel, Jean Baptist ^a,b   Hommel, Gerhard ^a   Röhrig, Bernd ^a   Blettner, Maria ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical research; Confidence interval; p value; Publications; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRENGTH;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 69049110950     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2009.0335     Document Type: Review

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