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Reassessing Fragility: A Comparative Analysis of the Fragility Index With the Relative Risk Index

2023-10-04 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundIn biostatistics, assessing the fragility of research findings is crucial for understanding their clinical significance. This study focuses on the fragility index, unit fragility index, and relative risk index as measures to evaluate statistical fragility. The relative risk index quantifies the deviation of observed findings from therapeutic equivalence. In contrast, the fragility indices assess the susceptibility of p-values to change significance with minor alterations in outcomes wi...

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