Reporting only relative effect measures was potentially misleading: some good practices for improving the soundness of epidemiological results
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2021
Abstract:
In the medical and epidemiological literature there is a growing tendency to report an excessive number of decimal digits (often three, sometimes four), especially when measures of relative occurrence are small; this can be misleading.
Tipologia CRIS:
14.a.1 Articolo su rivista
Keywords:
Observational studies; Relative risk; Rounding error, Odds ratio, Confidence intervals; Statistical precision; Humans; Statistics as Topic; Epidemiologic Studies
Elenco autori:
Novelli, Marco; Baldi Antognini, Alessandro; Boffetta, Paolo; Ioannidis, John Pa; Spatari, Giovanna; Violante, Francesco S
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