Confidence intervals for reporting results of clinical trials.
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Summary
Confidence intervals are important but underused supplements to tests of significance for reporting the results of clinical investigations, and formulas are presented for calculating confidence intervals with types of data commonly found in clinical trials.
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- 1986-09-01
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Medicine
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