Re: st: Number Needed to be Treated (NNT)

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

Nevertheless, it would make a useful addition to the -epitab-  
commands which calculate absolute risk reduction, together with its  
associated confidence interval, for those who are not brave enough to  
calculate something by hand.

On 31 I�il 2007, at 16:56, SR Millis wrote:


> NNT is simply the inverse of the absolute risk
> reduction, which is to be found in the clinical trials
> literature rather than in a statistical program.

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