Confidence intervals based on some weighting functions for the difference of two binomial proportions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2288-2296

  Maruo, Kazushi ^a   Kawai, Norisuke ^b  

^a KOWA COMPANY LTD   (Japan)

^b Pfizer Japan Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservativeness; Quasi exact method; Risk difference; Small sample; Test based confidence interval

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84899916763     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6147     Document Type: Article

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