(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 
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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? 
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