Psychiatrists' appreciation of statistical v. clinical significance: a quick test

Psychiatrists’ appreciation of statistical v. clinical significance: a quick test

AIMS AND METHOD Pharmaceutical advertising material can confuse clinical and statistical significance.We used a brief questionnaire (five questions) to evaluate psychiatrists’ appreciation of this difference. This approximated to the level of critical appraisal competence of the MRCPsych part 3 examination. RESULTS Of the 113 questionnaires distributed 93 were returned complete (response rate 8...

Psychiatrists’ appreciation of statistical v. clinical significance: a quick test

AIMS AND METHOD Pharmaceutical advertising material can confuse clinical and statistical significance.We used a brief questionnaire (five questions) to evaluate psychiatrists’ appreciation of this difference. This approximated to the level of critical appraisal competence of the MRCPsych part 3 examination. RESULTS Of the 113 questionnaires distributed 93 were returned complete (response rate 8...

Statistical significance and clinical significance.

A statistical significance test for person authentication

Assessing whether two models are statistically significantly different from each other is a very important step in research, although it has unfortunately not received enough attention in the field of person authentication. Several performance measures are often used to compare models, such as half total error rates (HTERs) and equal error rates (EERs), but most being aggregates of two measures...

The clinical significance of statistical significance.

Modern clinical trials provide the evidence for most therapeutic advances, and that evidence, expressed in a statistical format, is used to draw inferences about a population from the study's results. Clinician judgment translates these inferences for best individual patient care, but many clinicians struggle with the statistical interpretation of trial results. This review provides a clinical ...