Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many clinical investigators find the Number Needed to Treat (NNT) an appealing measure of treatment effect and use it routinely in reporting the results of randomized trials.It is most easily computed and interpreted for trials with binary responses, but attempts have been made to compute NNT-like measures for recurrent event outcomes.We discuss methodological issues concerning the construction of NNT-like measures of treatment effect based on recurrent event outcomes.Rate and mean functions are used to develop nonparametric estimates of NNT-like measures of treatment effect for recurrent events in terms of the number of individuals to be treated to expect to prevent a k th event, and simply to prevent any event.Parametric analyses facilitate the derivation of alternative measures and associated estimates.Applications to a trial of patients with cystic fibrosis are given for illustration.In settings where mortality rates are non-negligible, joint NNT-like measures for the recurrent event and survival processes are required and these are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.047 | 0.164 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.004 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".