Stata The Stata listserver
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date index][Thread index]

st: -cii- question [was: RE: Dear All,]


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: -cii- question [was: RE: Dear All,]
Date   Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:57:29 -0000

(low priority answer) 

What's the precise question here? Both forms of -cii- 
give binomial confidence intervals. They are both 
legal syntax and equivalent. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Panos Papanikolaou
> 
> ** High Priority **
> 
> >From my literature review on prevalence/incidence rate, I am 
> able to extract
> such information as the sample size of the study, the number 
> of people witth
> the complication
> and the reported prevalence/incidence.  All statistics have 
> been measured in
> the simplest way
> throughout my the papers i've looked at. anyhow. 
> 
> Given the above, I wonder if could perhaps use the following 
> intermediate
> command to compute CI.  For an illustration, suppose that the 
> number of
> patinets
> is 1000, number of people with the complication 320, observed 
> prevalence rate
> is 32%. Would it be acceptable to syntax the following command.
> 
> cii 1000 320  (or alternatively)
> 
> cii 1000 0.32
> 
> Would you like to offer me your thoughts of this, please? 

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/



© Copyright 1996–2024 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   What's new   |   Site index