Chapter
Confidence Intervals
Abstract
Confidence intervalsConfidence intervals provide information on how certain we are of the results of a study and help clinicians to decide whether the results are applicable to their patients. They permit us to draw inferences about a large population from a smaller sample of researchResearch participants. They tell us how confident we can be that the true population value lies within a range of estimates. Confidence intervals are calculated in …
Authors
Bogach J; Mbuagbaw L; Cadeddu MO
Book title
Evidence-Based Surgery
Pagination
pp. 301-309
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-05120-4_28