Section outline

  • Lecture 9: P-Values and Confidence Intervals / Alternatives to RCTs

    Faculty:  Thomas Newman

    Location: 
    Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch (Mediasite version) URL
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    • Required Reading:

      EBD-2, Ch 9 Alternatives to Randomized Trials for Estimating Treatment Effects (posted below as a Word document)

      EBD-1, Ch 11 P-Values and Confidence Intervals (posted below as a pdf)

    • Optional Reading:

    • Browner WS, Newman TB. Are all significant P-values created equal? The analogy between diagnostic tests and clinical research. JAMA 1987;257:2459-63 File
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    • Goodman, S. Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 1: The P value fallacy. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999; 130: 995-1004 File
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    • Goodman, S. Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 2: The Bayes factor. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999; 130: 1005-1013 File
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    • Newman, T. If almost nothing goes wrong, is almost everything all right? JAMA 1995; 274: 1013 File
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