TA clinical trial is conducted to compare an experimental medication to placebo to reduce the symptoms of asthma. One hundred participants are enrolled in the study and randomized to receive either the experimental medication or placebo. The primary outcome is self-reported reduction of symptoms. Among 50 participants who receive the experimental medication, 30 report a reduction of symptoms as compared to 15 participants of 50 assigned to the placebo. The 95% CI for the relative risk of participants reporting a reduction of symptoms between the experimental and placebo groups is between 1.529 and 8.012.

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  1. TA clinical trial is conducted to compare an experimental medication to placebo to reduce the symptoms of asthma. One hundred participants are enrolled in the study and randomized to receive either the experimental medication or placebo. The primary outcome is self-reported reduction of symptoms. Among 50 participants who receive the experimental medication, 30 report a reduction of symptoms as compared to 15 participants of 50 assigned to the placebo. The 95% CI for the relative risk of participants reporting a reduction of symptoms between the experimental and placebo groups is between 1.529 and 8.012.

 

 

 

  1. When calculating a confidence interval for one sample with a continuous outcome and the sample contains fewer than 30 individuals, then a t-score should be used in place of a z-score.

 

 

 

 

  1. The margin of error for a confidence interval for a population is equivalent to the standard deviation times the z-score value, or t-score value depending on the size of the population, for the probability of interest times the standard deviation of the population.

 

 

 

 

  1. A researcher compares the BMI of two populations of individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds and finds that the proportion of individuals considered obese and from a poor background is .37 (n = 112), and the proportion of individuals considered obese and from an affluent background is .27 (n = 87); a 95% confidence interval for the risk difference for obesity among members of the poor population compared to the affluent population is (-0.03, 0.23).

 

 

 

 

 

Confidence intervals for relative risks and odds ratios require the usage of the natural log in their formula.

 

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