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How confidence intervals become confusion intervals

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, October 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 2,310)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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2 blogs
twitter
284 X users
facebook
5 Facebook pages
googleplus
3 Google+ users

Citations

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193 Mendeley
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Title
How confidence intervals become confusion intervals
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-13-134
Pubmed ID
Authors

James McCormack, Ben Vandermeer, G Michael Allan

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 193 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Netherlands 2 1%
Spain 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 175 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 34 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 13%
Other 20 10%
Student > Master 19 10%
Professor 17 9%
Other 52 27%
Unknown 25 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 62 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 10%
Sports and Recreations 16 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 6%
Mathematics 8 4%
Other 46 24%
Unknown 30 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 190. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2022.
All research outputs
#213,056
of 25,703,943 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#11
of 2,310 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,531
of 226,786 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#1
of 28 outputs
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