Recommended tests and confidence intervals for paired binomial proportions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2850-2875

  Fagerland, Morten W ^a   Lydersen, Stian ^b   Laake, Petter ^c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dependent data; Matched data; McNemar; Mid p; Paired data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EYELID DISEASE; FLOPPY EYELID SYNDROME; MCNEMAR TEST; PAIRED BINOMIAL PROPORTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84901947202     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6148     Document Type: Article

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