The use of confidence intervals in reporting orthopaedic research findings

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 467, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3334-3339

  Vavken, Patrick ^a   Heinrich, Klemens M ^b   Koppelhuber, Christian ^b   Rois, Stefan ^b   Dorotka, Ronald ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 70449519310     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-009-0817-7     Document Type: Article

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