Determining confidence intervals on psychophysical thresholds is straight forward if the psychometric function is known. In clinical settings, however, there is only partial information about the psychometric function, hence confidence limits are usually derived from test-retest data collected from many subjects. In this paper, we introduce a computational technique for deriving confidence limi...

Elbow injuries are commonly seen in accident departments. Patients with possible bony injuries to the elbow were assessed to see if inability to fully extend the elbow was a good indicator of bony injury and hence the need for X-ray. The sensitivity of this test was 90.7% (95% confidence limits 80.7-100.7) and the specificity 69.5% (95% confidence limits 60.3-78.7). Use of this simple test woul...

Notes that many statistics have more complex sampling distributions than do means, for example, , the standardized difference between means. Briefly discusses ways to construct confidence intervals about such statistics. Mentions confidence interval transformation (Steiger & Fouladi, 1997) – the statistic is transformed into normally distributed units, lower/upper limits of the interval are ob...

conclusions the he jump mat can be recommended in relation to the validity of constraints. in this study, only a part of the quality criteria were examined. for the final recommendation it is advised to examine the he jump mat on the other quality criteria (test-retest reliability, sensitivity change). background in the field of vertical jump diagnostics, force plates (fp) are the reference sta...

A New Zealand Cancer Registry based case-control study involved 617 male patients with prostate cancer registered during 1979 and aged 20 years or more at the time of registration. Controls were also males chosen from the Cancer Registry with two controls per case, matched on age and year of registration. There was an elevated risk in the upper social class groupings. The data did not support t...

The probabilistic nature of the IMF in stellar systems implies that clusters of the same mass and age do not present the same unique values of their observed parameters. Instead they follow a distribution. We address the study of such distributions in terms of their confidence limits that can be obtained by evolutionary synthesis models. These confidence limits can be understood as the inherent...

software with confidence limits and Bayes (predicted value) calculations.

BACKGROUND The location quotient (LQ) ratio, a measure designed to quantify and benchmark the degree of relative concentration of an activity in the analysis of area localization, has received considerable attention in the geographic and economics literature. This index can also naturally be applied in the context of population health to quantify and compare health outcomes across spatial domai...

BACKGROUND The use of the lower 90% confidence limit of the lower limit of normal (LLN(CI)), rather than a fixed percentage of the predicted value (LLN(%)), appears to be statistically more appropriate for interpretation of spirometry results. There has been no comparative assessment of these 2 definitions of the LLN in routine clinical practice. METHODS We studied results of spirometry inter...