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Record W2118202525 · doi:10.2522/ptj.2010.90.3.333

The Added Value of Confidence Intervals

2010· article· en· W2118202525 on OpenAlexaff
Paul W. Stratford

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysical Therapy · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicMeta-analysis and systematic reviews
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsValue (mathematics)Confidence intervalStatisticsMedicineMathematics

Abstract

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Since its formal introduction in 1991, evidence-based medicine/practice has received considerable attention. Defined as “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients,”1 evidence-based practice embraces the integration of best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values.2 Clinicians are active participants not only in applying their expertise, but also in seeking out and interpreting research evidence. To allow the optimal transfer of information from research report to clinical practice, researchers must present their findings in an easy-to-understand format that provides the maximum amount of information efficiently. When interpreting the results from studies investigating the merits of competing therapeutic interventions, the reliability or validity of clinical measurements, or the causal association of putative risk factors, clinicians and researchers are interested in the answers to 2 important questions: (1) Are the results likely due to chance? and (2) Are the findings clinically important? The former question considers statistical significance, and the latter question addresses clinical significance. Statistical significance is dictated by tradition, with a critical P value of .05 typically being the requisite minimal value. Statistical significance is influenced by sample size, sample variability, and the magnitude of the observed effect. In contrast to the arbitrary standard for statistical significance, clinical importance is influenced by personal beliefs, risk of an adverse event, cost, and the feasibility of providing the intervention, test, or measure in practice. Because clinicians—and researchers for that matter—are likely to have different opinions concerning the magnitude of a clinically important difference, it is essential that authors provide their results …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.034
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.365
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0340.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.668
GPT teacher head0.558
Teacher spread0.110 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2010
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