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  1. study participants (subjects*, participants) — 504 views
    “The people included in a study” … (read more)
  2.   statistically significant — 410 views
    “A result that is unlikely to have happened by chance. The usual threshold for this judgement is a likelihood of less than 5%” … (read more)
  3. non-randomized study (non-experimental study, observational study,) — 400 views
    “A category of studies that does not use random allocation to assign participants to treatment comparison groups” … (read more)
  4. type of study (research design) — 342 views
    “Key features of research methods used to categorize types of studies” … (read more)
  5. margin of error (CI, margin of error,) — 333 views
    “A measure of uncertainty due to the play of chance” … (read more)
  6. play of chance (random error) — 331 views
    “In treatment comparisons, a type of error that may affect the results because too few events or outcomes have been observed to provide a reliable measure of the treatment effects” … (read more)
  7. attrition bias (exclusion bias) — 329 views
    “Unequal loss of participants from study groups in a trial.” … (read more)
  8. utility value — 329 views
    “In health economic evaluations, a measure of the strength of preference for a specific health outcome” … (read more)
  9. benefit (desirable anticipated effect, desirable effect) — 328 views
    “Difference in outcomes that favours a treatment in a treatment comparison” … (read more)
  10. measurement bias (ascertainment bias, detection bias, observer bias) — 327 views
    “Bias resulting from systematic differences in how outcomes are measured in treatment comparison groups in a study.” … (read more)