Current use of effect size or confidence interval analyses in clinical and biomedical research.

ABSTRACT: The isolated use of the statistical hypothesis testing for two group comparison has limitations, and its combination with effect size or confidence interval analysis as complementary statistical tests is recommended. In the present work, we estimate the use of these complementary statistical tests (i.e. effect size or confidence interval) in recently published in research articles in clinical and biomedical areas. Methods: The ProQuest database was used to search published studies in academic journals between 2019 and 2020. The analysis was carried out using terms that represent five areas of clinical and biomedical research: "brain", "liver", "heart", "dental", and "covid-19". A total of 119,558 published articles were retrieved. Results: The relative use of complementary st

SUBMITTER: Amaral EOS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8449212 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature