Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Can we infer from 95% Confidence Interval what strength of the association (RR/OR) is?

Not necessarily. The confidence interval will only allow us to infer to the population and come to some conclusion about statistical significance, but it will not necessarily tell us about substantive significance. The reason is that if you are working with a very large sample, it is easy to get a narrow confidence interval, but that won't necessarily tell you the strength,

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