The last remaining antidepressant thought to be helpful for adolescents with major depression has been knocked down by an RCT showing it’s no better than placebo. http://ow.ly/vEHG50vx0Ep
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Replying to @Medicalrepublic @fedupobstetric1
Interesting, however the statement that 5 suicide attempts in the placebo group vrs 1 suicide attempt in the antidepressant group is insignificant seems wrong. By my calculation there are 5/76 = 6.6%, 1/76 = 1.3%. Surely statistically significant? Statisticians care to comment?
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You'd have to do a chai squared test I think because you're working with categorical (binary) data. Not too hard to figure this one out. I'm no statistician but I can give it a crack.
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Replying to @frogsandstars @johnnypherome and
Looks like they used Fisher's exact test (more appropriate for this sample) and found no statistically significant differencepic.twitter.com/4tzZtNRis4
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Replying to @GidMK @johnnypherome and
How do you know it was a fishers exact test?
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Replying to @frogsandstars @GidMK and
Also thanks! I'm bringing all my stats questions to you in the future haha
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Lol, it'll be just like work. And I had a look at the study in the Lancet
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