Simple Methods of Determining Confidence Intervals for Functions of Estimates in Published Results

Often, the reader of a published paper is interested in a comparison of parameters that has not been presented. It is not possible to make inferences beyond point estimation since the standard error for the contrast of the estimated parameters depends upon the (unreported) correlation. This study ex...

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Main Authors: Fitzmaurice, Garrett, Lipsitz, Stuart, Natarajan, Sundar, Gawande, Atul, Sinha, Debajyoti, Greenberg, Caprice, Giovannucci, Edward
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037217/