Clearance duration as a predictor of sustained viral response in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1.

obtain , which is exactly the Ø p 3.3% same as the result obtained by the simple mathematical calculation 4/121 100, and the mathematical model would become redundant. We would accept 3.3% as the proportion discordant, although the binomial 95% confidence interval is 1.3%–8.2%. Nonetheless, had the authors chosen to test 13 colonies per sample, they might have observed a larger number of discordant samples.