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An investigation in which patient, investigator and peripheral staff are all aware of what treatment the patient is receiving.
A procedure for obtaining a pooled estimate of an odds ratio from a set of two by two contingency tables. Not recommended
A significance test for which the alternative hypothesis is directional; for example, that one population mean is greater than another. The choice
A form of matching often used when control subjects are more readily obtained than cases. A number, m (m > 1), of
A power family of transformations, 𝑦 𝑥𝑘, that provides a useful approach to ‘straightening’ a single bend in the relationship between two
A term arising from a claim made by the defence lawyer in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson. The lawyer stated
A term often applied to the graphs of cumulative frequency distributions. Essentially synonymous with sigmoid, which is to be preferred.
A term used in generalized linear models to indicate a known regression coefficient that is to be included in a model, i.e.
The ratio of the probabilities of the two possible states of a binary variable.