How to obtain the confidence interval from a P value

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7825, 2011, Pages

  Altman, Douglas G ^a   Bland, J Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84858999738     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d2090     Document Type: Article

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