Appendix E — Inference

E.1 Interpretation of Negative Findings

See Vittinghoff et al. (2012) §3.7 (p64).

E.2 Confidence intervals

Definition E.1 (margin of error) The margin of error (a.k.a. the radius) is one-half the width of a confidence interval.

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• Anatomy of a confidence interval (text)

Vittinghoff, Eric, David V Glidden, Stephen C Shiboski, and Charles E McCulloch. 2012. Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models. 2nd ed. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1353-0.