Re: CIs for adjusted rates

2001-11-22 Thread Robert Chung
Scheltema, Karen wrote: I have complication rates for a given procedure. I was thinking of using indirect standardization as a method of risk adjustment given that some doctors see more complex patients. What I can't figure out is how I would go about calculating a 95% CI after the risk

CIs for adjusted rates

2001-11-21 Thread Scheltema, Karen
I have complication rates for a given procedure. I was thinking of using indirect standardization as a method of risk adjustment given that some doctors see more complex patients. What I can't figure out is how I would go about calculating a 95% CI after the risk adjustment. Any pointers would

Re: CIs for adjusted rates

2001-11-21 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 08:35 AM 11/21/01 -0600, Scheltema, Karen wrote: I have complication rates for a given procedure. I was thinking of using indirect standardization as a method of risk adjustment given that some doctors see more complex patients. What I can't figure out is how I would go about calculating a

CIs

2001-09-27 Thread Dennis Roberts
it seems to me that the notion of a confidence interval is a general concept ... having to do with estimating some unknown quantity in which errors are known to occur or be present in that estimation process in general, the generic version of a CI is: statistic/estimator +/-

Re: CIs

2001-09-27 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Dennis Roberts wrote: it seems to me that the notion of a confidence interval is a general concept ... having to do with estimating some unknown quantity in which errors are known to occur or be present in that estimation process in general, the generic version of a CI is:

Re: CIs

2001-09-27 Thread Jerry Dallal
Dennis Roberts wrote: it seems to me that the notion of a confidence interval is a general concept ... having to do with estimating some unknown quantity in which errors are known to occur or be present in that estimation process in general, the generic version of a CI is:

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