Calculating confidence intervals for impact numbers
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Calculating confidence intervals for impact numbers
BACKGROUND Standard effect measures such as risk difference and attributable risk are frequently used in epidemiological studies and public health research to describe the effect of exposures. Recently, so-called impact numbers have been proposed, which express the population impact of exposures in form of specific person or case numbers. To describe estimation uncertainty, it is necessary to c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Research Methodology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1471-2288
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-32