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mrfusion
on Jan 22, 2018
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Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic...
I wonder what the p value is. 9% vs 3% in a sample of 300 doesn’t sound that compelling.
itronitron
on Jan 22, 2018
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Yeah, it would be interesting to do the same study in California and see if the percentage was higher or lower, they could even break it down by closest major city, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.
arkades
on Jan 22, 2018
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I couldn’t find 9 vs 3 in any of their published papers. Their most recent has 6 v 1.5 (p of .04) from a review of existing epi data, and not an original collection (
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201...
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sshumaker
on Jan 22, 2018
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Exactly my thinking. It's 0.0256 using a chi-squared test, which is definitely below the standard threshold.
eutectic
on Jan 22, 2018
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about .025:
http://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/ztest/Default2.aspx
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