Evidence Based Medicine pills
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Factors that condition the sample size. The need to perform a correct calculation of the sample size necessary for a study is reviewed, as well as the main factors that influence the sample required to demonstrate the effect considered relevant…
Fisher’s exact test. Fisher’s test is the exact method used when you want to study if there is an association between two qualitative variables, that is, if the proportions of one variable are different depending on the value of the…
Regression model diagnostics. Once we obtain the simple linear regression model, we have to proceed to its validation and to the diagnosis of the model. The first case consists of checking that the coefficients are statistically significant. The second is…
Yates’ continuity correction. We often use approximations with continuous probability distributions to solve hypothesis contrasts with variables that follow a discrete distribution. In these cases, we must apply a continuity correction, the best known being the Yates’ continuity correction.