title: Short History of Confidence Intervals: Or, Don't Ask "Does the Treatment Work?" but "How Sure Are You That It Works?".
authors.affiliation: From the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Peter.sandercock@ed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Peter A G
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Sandercock
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: clinical trial; confidence intervals; meta-analysis; predictive value of tests; statistics