On the comparison of effects.
American Journal of Public HealthPublished 1 April 1987Open access
William Thompson
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Poole proposes that epidemiologists draw an occasional p-value function in order to help them avoid misinterpreting confidence intervals, and offers two examples of insights that might be provided by the plotting of p- value functions, but fails to see how in this example inspection of such functions would provide any special insight.
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On the comparison of effects. W D ThompsonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.4.491 Published Online: October 07, 2011
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