Confidence Interval or P-Value? Part 4 of a Series on Evaluation of Scientific Publications
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Confidence interval or p-value?: part 4 of a series on evaluation of scientific publications.
BACKGROUND An understanding of p-values and confidence intervals is necessary for the evaluation of scientific articles. This article will inform the reader of the meaning and interpretation of these two statistical concepts. METHODS The uses of these two statistical concepts and the differences between them are discussed on the basis of a selective literature search concerning the methods em...
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عنوان ژورنال: Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1866-0452
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2009.0335