Recommended confidence intervals for two independent binomial proportions

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 224-254

  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

2 2 table; NNT; odds ratio; relative risk; risk difference

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADJUSTED LOG; AGRESTI CAFFO CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; AGRESTI MIN CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; APPROXIMATE INTERVAL; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BAPTISTA PIKE EXACT CONDITIONAL; BERGER AND BOOS PROCEDURE; CALCULATION; CHAN ZHANG CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNFIELD EXACT CONDITIONAL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXACT INTERVAL; EXACT UNCONDITIONAL INTERVAL; GART ADJUSTED LOGIT; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE SMOOTHED LOGIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERSE HYPERBOLIC SINE; KATZ LOG; KOOPMAN ASYMPTOTIC SCORE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIETTINEN NURMINEN ASYMPTOTIC SCORE; MIETTINEN NURMINEN CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; NEWCOMBE HYBRID SCORE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROBABILITY; QUASI EXACT INTERVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SANTNER SNELL CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; WALD CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; WOOLF LOGIT; BIOSTATISTICS; CHILD; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOSTATISTICS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPINEPHRINE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84928482271     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280211415469     Document Type: Article

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