Confidence Intervals

"Confidence Intervals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A range of values for a variable of interest, e.g., a rate, constructed so that this range has a specified probability of including the true value of the variable.

Descriptor ID	D016001
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.740.275 N05.715.360.750.220 N06.850.520.830.275
Concept/Terms	Confidence Intervals Confidence Intervals Confidence Interval Interval, Confidence Intervals, Confidence

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Confidence Intervals".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Statistics as Topic [E05.318.740]
Confidence Intervals [E05.318.740.275]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Confidence Intervals [N05.715.360.750.220]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Statistics as Topic [N06.850.520.830]
Confidence Intervals [N06.850.520.830.275]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Confidence Intervals".

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Bar chart showing 64 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2008

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1993	0	1	1
1994	0	1	1
1996	0	3	3
1997	0	2	2
1999	0	1	1
2000	1	0	1
2002	0	2	2
2003	0	2	2
2004	0	2	2
2007	0	4	4
2008	0	9	9
2009	0	3	3
2010	0	5	5
2011	0	2	2
2012	0	7	7
2013	1	4	5
2014	0	5	5
2015	0	1	1
2016	0	2	2
2017	0	1	1
2018	0	3	3
2019	0	1	1
2020	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Confidence Intervals" by people in Profiles.

Saul M, Poorman K, Tae H, Vanderwalde A, Stafford P, Spetzler D, Korn WM, Gatalica Z, Swensen J. Population bias in somatic measurement of microsatellite instability status. Cancer Med. 2020 09; 9(17):6452-6460.

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Barnett AG, Wren JD. Examination of CIs in health and medical journals from 1976 to 2019: an observational study. BMJ Open. 2019 11 21; 9(11):e032506.

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Khojandi A, Tansakul V, Li X, Koszalinski RS, Paiva W. Prediction of Sepsis and In-Hospital Mortality Using Electronic Health Records. Methods Inf Med. 2018 09; 57(4):185-193.

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Georgescu C, Wren JD. Algorithmic identification of discrepancies between published ratios and their reported confidence intervals and P-values. Bioinformatics. 2018 05 15; 34(10):1758-1766.

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Logan S, Owen D, Chen S, Chen WJ, Ungvari Z, Farley J, Csiszar A, Sharpe A, Loos M, Koopmans B, Richardson A, Sonntag WE. Simultaneous assessment of cognitive function, circadian rhythm, and spontaneous activity in aging mice. Geroscience. 2018 04; 40(2):123-137.

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Bais C, Mueller B, Brady MF, Mannel RS, Burger RA, Wei W, Marien KM, Kockx MM, Husain A, Birrer MJ. Tumor Microvessel Density as a Potential Predictive Marker for Bevacizumab Benefit: GOG-0218 Biomarker Analyses. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2017 11 01; 109(11).

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Dasenbrock HH, Devine CA, Liu KX, Gormley WB, Claus EB, Smith TR, Dunn IF. Thrombocytopenia and craniotomy for tumor: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program analysis. Cancer. 2016 Jun 01; 122(11):1708-17.

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Haisley KR, Hart KD, Fischer LE, Kunio NR, Bakis G, Tieu BH, Schipper PH, Sheppard BC, Hunter JG, Dolan JP. Increasing tumor length is associated with regional lymph node metastases and decreased survival in esophageal cancer. Am J Surg. 2016 May; 211(5):860-6.

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Shara N, Yassin SA, Valaitis E, Wang H, Howard BV, Wang W, Lee ET, Umans JG. Randomly and Non-Randomly Missing Renal Function Data in the Strong Heart Study: A Comparison of Imputation Methods. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0138923.

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Clapp MA, Melamed A, Robinson JN, Shah N, Little SE. Obstetrician volume as a potentially modifiable risk factor for cesarean delivery. Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Oct; 124(4):697-703.

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