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Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
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A pair of means
The sample size necessary to estimate the comparison of two means depends on the confidence level of the estimate, the power of the study, the variability of the measured variable and the magnitude of the difference that is to be detected.
Sciences or arts
Mann-Whitney U test, also called Wilcoxon rank-sum test, is a non-parametric test that allows comparing the medians of a quantitative variable for the two categories of a dichotomous qualitative variable. It is applied when the assumptions necessary to use the Student's t-test cannot be fulfilled.
The sleepless naturalist
Discrete probability distributions allow us to establish the full possible range of values of an event when it is described with a discrete random variable. Examples of the use of the Bernoulli, binomial, geometric, and hypergeometric distributions are shown.
From bridge to bridge
The concepts of odds and probability are described, as well as their combined use together with the Bayes’ factor for calculating the probability of being sick or healthy after knowing the result of a diagnostic test.