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 187 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 20 publications in 2010

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1992	0	1	1
1993	0	2	2
1994	0	1	1
1995	0	6	6
1996	0	1	1
1997	0	2	2
1998	1	3	4
1999	0	6	6
2000	0	4	4
2001	0	2	2
2002	0	6	6
2003	0	5	5
2004	1	4	5
2005	0	18	18
2006	0	8	8
2007	0	11	11
2008	0	9	9
2009	0	17	17
2010	0	20	20
2011	0	12	12
2012	0	14	14
2013	0	10	10
2014	0	5	5
2015	0	8	8
2016	1	4	5
2018	0	2	2
2020	2	1	3

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

Naimi AI, Whitcomb BW. Can Confidence Intervals Be Interpreted? Am J Epidemiol. 2020 07 01; 189(7):631-633.

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Visintainer PF. Moving beyond significance testing: Confidence intervals in clinical research. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 04; 161(4):1373-1376.

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Fuller AE, Garg A, Brown NM, Tripodis Y, Oyeku SO, Gross RS. Relationships Between Material Hardship, Resilience, and Health Care Use. Pediatrics. 2020 02; 145(2).

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Aulet TH, Moore JS, Callas PW, Nicholas C, Hulme M. (En)trust me: Validating an assessment rubric for documenting clinical encounters during a surgery clerkship clinical skills exam. Am J Surg. 2020 02; 219(2):258-262.

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Wang C, Liu C, Giatsidis G, Cheng H, Chen L, Kang D, Panayi AC, Luan J. The Effect of Respiration on Breast Measurement Using Three-dimensional Breast Imaging. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2019 02; 43(1):53-58.

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Bendinelli C, Ku D, Nebauer S, King KL, Howard T, Gruen R, Evans T, Fitzgerald M, Balogh ZJ. A tale of two cities: prehospital intubation with or without paralysing agents for traumatic brain injury. ANZ J Surg. 2018 May; 88(5):455-459.

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Cauley JA, Smagula SF, Hovey KM, Wactawski-Wende J, Andrews CA, Crandall CJ, LeBoff MS, Li W, Coday M, Sattari M, Tindle HA. Optimism, Cynical Hostility, Falls, and Fractures: The Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI-OS). J Bone Miner Res. 2017 Feb; 32(2):221-229.

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Forconi C, Gatault P, Miquelestorena-Standley E, Noble J, Al-Hajj S, Guillemain R, Stern M, Hoffmann T, Prat L, Suberbielle C, Masson E, Cesbron-Gautier A, Gaudy-Graffin C, Goudeau A, Thibault G, Ivanes F, Guibon R, Kazma I, Lebranchu Y, Büchler M, Magnan A, Halimi JM, Baron C. Polymorphism in programmed cell death 1 gene is strongly associated with lung and kidney allograft survival in recipients from CMV-positive donors. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017 Mar; 36(3):315-324.

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Rahman F, Yin X, Larson MG, Ellinor PT, Lubitz SA, Vasan RS, McManus DD, Magnani JW, Benjamin EJ. Trajectories of Risk Factors and Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in the Framingham Heart Study. Hypertension. 2016 09; 68(3):597-605.

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Hoaglin DC. Shortcomings of an approximate confidence interval for moment-based estimators of the between-study variance in random-effects meta-analysis. Res Synth Methods. 2016 Dec; 7(4):459-461.

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