An improved confidence interval for the number needed to treat under negative binomial sampling

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Huan Shu, Dadao Feng, Maozai Tian

Publication date: 19 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationnegative binomial samplingshortest intervalWald type interval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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• A comparative study of confidence intervals for negative binomial proportion
• A closer look at the distribution of number needed to treat (NNT): a Bayesian approach

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