The number needed to treat, that is, the average number of patients a clinician needs to treat with a particular therapy to prevent one bad outcome,1 is a translation into clinical terms of the ...

A recent comparative analysis of alternative interval estimation approaches and procedures has shown that confidence intervals (CIs) for true raw scores determined with the Score method—which uses the ...

The linkage disequilibrium method is currently the most widely used single sample estimator of genetic effective population size. The commonly used software packages come with two options, referred to ...

In the first article in this series,1 we presented an approach to understanding how to estimate a treatment's effectiveness that covered relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number ...

There is increased interest in eliminating health disparities in the United States and worldwide. Broadly defined, health disparities refer to preventable inequalities in health status, such as cancer ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Parametric empirical Bayes (EB) methods of point estimation for a vector of unknown parameters date to the landmark paper of James and Stein ...

Third in the series: Nobody becomes a Psych major to study statistics The science of uncertainty. Statistics – much to the regret of many potential psych majors – is the core methodology that links ...

This applet allows users to drag sliders to change the population proportion, confidence level and sample size. The applet helps users visualize the meaning of the phrase "C% confidence," by showing ...