Posted by Klavot on December 31, 2006, at 11:27:14
In reply to Re: After the hype, posted by linkadge on December 30, 2006, at 17:38:33
> Ie. I don't think you can find the percentage of people helped by antidepressants without knowing the exact number of people helped and not helped in each clinical trial.
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> If you wanted to go into even more detail you could factor in the degree to which each person felt they were helped :)
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> I'll shut up now.
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> Linkadge
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>I think that's what they do in a "meta-analysis" - they come up with a grand total success rate from analysing a large body of appropriately weighted existing trials.
I'll shut up as well now :)
Klavot
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