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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.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.115
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.641
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.885
Threshold uncertainty score0.611

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1150.641
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0080.005
Bibliometrics0.0130.011
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0090.010
Open science0.0070.006
Research integrity0.0080.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.003

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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
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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