Statistics - calculations Flashcards
Number needed to treat (NNT)
definition
How many patients need to be treated with an intervention to reduce the expected number of outcomes by one
Number needed to treat (NNT)
calculation
1/absolute risk reduction (ARR)
Round to the next highest number
Absolute risk reduction definition
Is the difference between the event rate in the treatment group (experimental event rate (EER) )and the event rate in the control group (control event rate CER)
Absolute risk reduction calculation
Outcome undesirable:
ARR=CER-EER
Outcome desirable:
ARR=EER-CER
Experimental event rate (EER) definition/caluation
Number who had particular outcome with the intervention / Total number who had the intervention
Control event rate (CER)
Number who had a particular outcome with the control/ Total number who had the control
Variance definition
A measure of the spread of scores away from the mean
Variance
calculation
Square root stand deviation
Standard deviation calculation
Square root of variance
Odds definition
A ratio of the number of people who incur a particular outcome to the number of people who do not incur the outcome
Odds definition calculation
Total no to benefit from new treatment/those who received treatment but didn’t benefit
Odds ratio definition
Defined as the ratio of the odds of a particular outcome with experimental treatment and that of control
Usual reported measure in case-control studies. It approximates to relative risk if the outcome of interest is rare
Odds ratio example
Odds of experiment arm outcome/odds of placebo outcome = ratio
Probability definition
The fraction of times you’d expect to see an event in many trials – when expressed as a single number probability is always 0 and 1
Incidence definition
A measure of the number of new cases
Incidence calculation
New cases/total group surveyed x requested volume in population
Prevalence definition
A snapshot of existing cases
Point prevalence
Point prevalence = no. of cases in a defined population/number of people in a defined population at the same time
Period prevalence
Period prevalence = no. of identified cases during a specified period of time/total number of people in that population