February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Session 1- Overview: 47
Statistical Issues
Many measures used to quantify statistical evidence for treatment effect are based on the sampling density for a test statistic
Design operating characteristics
·Type I error, power
-Sample size computation
Statistical inference
·P values
·Confidence intervals
·Some optimality properties of estimators:
-bias
-mean squared error