Smaller clinical trials for decision making; a case study to show p-values are costly
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Confidence intervals and p-values in clinical decision making.
UNLABELLED Clinical trials are usually performed on a sample of people drawn from the population of interest. The results of a trial are, therefore, estimates of what might happen if the treatment were to be given to the entire population of interest. Confidence intervals (CIs) provide a range of plausible values for a population parameter and give an idea about how precise the measured treatme...
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عنوان ژورنال: F1000Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2046-1402
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.15522.2