A clinician’s view of statistics

Atkins, Carl D.

doi:10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.00089.x

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“…Since p-values fail to convey the precision [12] of effect estimates, it is recommended and sometimes required [13] to report confidence intervals (CI) for both absolute and relative change estimates from time series analyses. However, in 433 articles referenced in PubMed with the term “time series” in the title from 2005 to 2007, only an early version of the authors' multivariate delta methods [14] reported confidence intervals for both absolute and relative changes .…”

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Methods for estimating confidence intervals in interrupted time series analyses of health interventions

Zhang

Wagner

Soumerai

et al. 2009

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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Objective Interrupted time series is a strong quasi-experimental research design that is increasingly applied to estimate the effects of health services and policy interventions. We describe and illustrate two methods for estimating confidence intervals around absolute and relative changes in outcomes calculated from segmented regression parameter estimates. Study Design and Setting We used multivariate delta and bootstrapping methods to construct confidence intervals around relative changes in level and trend and around absolute changes in outcome based on segmented linear regression analyses of time series data corrected for auto-correlated errors. Results Using previously published time series data, we estimated confidence intervals around the effect of prescription alerts for interacting medications with warfarin on the rate of prescriptions per 10,000 warfarin users per month. Both the multivariate delta method and the bootstrapping method produced similar results. Conclusion The bootstrapping method is preferred for calculating confidence intervals of relative changes in outcomes of time series studies since it does not require large sample sizes when parameter estimates are obtained correctly from the model. Caution is needed when sample size is small.

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confidence: 99%