Computer software that can calculate confidence intervals is now available
- 13 May 1995
- Vol. 310 (6989), 1269-1270
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6989.1269b
Abstract
EDITOR,—Richard J Cook and David L Sackett usefully show applications of the number needed to treat statistic for clinical decision making.1 Confidence intervals are an important aid to meaningful inference from this statistic.2 Mention in the paper of the construction of …Keywords
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