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This example calculates confidence intervals based on the profile likelihood for the parameters estimated in the previous example. The following introduction on profile-likelihood methods is based on ...

The following example illustrates how you can construct a bootstrap confidence interval by using the multiple responses feature in PROC TPSPLINE. Numerous epidemiological observations have indicated ...

The number needed to treat, that is, the average number of patients a clinician needs to treat with a particular therapy to prevent one bad outcome,1 is a translation into clinical terms of the ...

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A confidence interval is a statistical concept that shows how likely it is that a range based on a sample of a population contains the mean, or the actual figure, for that data set. It’s useful when a ...