Evidence Based Medicine pills
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Robust location parameters. We describe robust location parameters that are more robust to the presence of extreme values than arithmetic mean. The mean is a whimsical statistic. Of course, I am referring to the arithmetic mean. And why do I say that…
Statistical significance vs clinical relevance. We must always prioritize the effect size and its clinical relevance over its statistical significance, which depends on the sample size.
Bar plot and histogram. We review the differences between bar plots, useful for representing qualitative variables, and histograms, for quantitative ones.
Confidence interval and sample size. The characteristics of the standard error of a proportion allow us to make with confidence precise inferences without the need of very large samples.
Conditional probability. Sometimes the initial probability can change if we have certain information. This is what is called conditional probability.