Simple Methods of Determining Confidence Intervals for Functions of Estimates in Published Results

• Garrett Fitzmaurice ,

  * E-mail: gfitzmaurice@partners.org

  Affiliation McLean Hospital Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Stuart Lipsitz,

  Affiliations Division of Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ariadne Labs, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sundar Natarajan,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Atul Gawande,

  Affiliation Ariadne Labs, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Debajyoti Sinha,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

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• Caprice Greenberg,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Edward Giovannucci

  Affiliation Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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