Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 14: Logistic regression" doc

Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 14: Logistic regression" doc

Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 14: Logistic regression" doc

... binary (e.g. death or survival), then the probability distribution of the number of deaths in a sample of a particular size, for given values of the explanatory Review Statistics review 14: Logistic ... the explanatory variables is assessed by carrying out statistical tests of the significance of the coefficients. The overall goodness of fit of the model is then tested. Additionally,...
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Báo cáo y học: " Statistics review 6: Nonparametric methods" docx

Báo cáo y học: " Statistics review 6: Nonparametric methods" docx

... than some hypothesized value, and considers whether this is substantially different from what we would expect by chance. If any observations are exactly equal to the hypothesized value they are ignored ... be Normally distributed, whereas the sign test only requires that they are independent of one another. Alternatively, the dis- crepancy may be a result of the difference in power provided b...
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Báo cáo y học: " Statistics review 11: Assessing risk" doc

Báo cáo y học: " Statistics review 11: Assessing risk" doc

... viable in this type of study, but RR is generally easier to interpret. The AR indicates that 14.4% of the successful outcomes can be directly attributed to the early goal-directed therapy and is calculated ... prospective cohort study conducted by Quasney and coworkers [1] of 402 adults admitted to the Memphis Methodist Healthcare System with community-acquired pneumonia. That study investiga...
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Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 1: Presenting and summarising data" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 1: Presenting and summarising data" pptx

... plots Unordered Ordered Discrete Continuous Ventilatory support Severity of illness Days in ICU Blood pressure Main types: In tables, shown as: Graphically shown as: Types: Examples: Table 1 Haemoglobin (g/dl) ... median, the interquartile range is not influenced by unusually high or low values and may be particularly useful when data are not symmetrically distributed. Ranges based on alterna...
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Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 2: Samples and populations" potx

Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 2: Samples and populations" potx

... approximately Normal and that the popula- tion SD can be approximated by the sample SD. These assumptions, particularly the first, will generally be valid if the sample is sufficiently large. There may ... distribution is extremely non-Normal and the sample size is very small then it may be necessary to use non- parametric methods. (These will be discussed in a subse- quent review. ) However...
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Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 4: Sample size calculations" doc

Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 4: Sample size calculations" doc

... sufficiently small P value. Similarly, a study with high statistical power will, by definition, make iden- tification of any difference relatively easy, but this can only be achieved in a sufficiently ... apparently null result that shows no difference between groups may simply be due to lack of statistical power, making it extremely unlikely that a true difference will be correctly identifie...
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Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 5: Comparison of means" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Statistics review 5: Comparison of means" docx

... subsequent treatment may increase central venous oxygen saturation beyond the level expected by chance. However, the P value in isolation gives no information about the likely size of any effect. As indicated ... early goal-directed therapy may be successful in raising mean arterial pressure by between 9.3 and 18.7 mmHg. As always, it is important to interpret this finding in the context of t...
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Báo cáo y học: " Statistics review 12: Survival analysis" ppt

Báo cáo y học: " Statistics review 12: Survival analysis" ppt

... age > 65 years or ≤ 65 years, and (b) long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) before intensive care unit admission (yes/no). The P values are for the log rank test. 391 test the null hypothesis that ... bronchiectasis Explanatory 95% confidence variables Risk ratio interval P Age (>65 years) 2.7 1.15–6.29 0.022 LTOT (yes) 3.12 1.47–6.90 0.003 LTOT, long-term oxygen therapy. ... time, the star...
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