Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ...
by onomonomono on Monday August 06, 2018 @10:40PM
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Somebody with more expertise than me needs to chime in here.
If you take the data from Table S2 and perform a two-sample binomial test (as seen here[0] and at 3 minutes here[1]) you can directly contradict a statement in the paper's abstract ("Male patients and female patients experience similar outcomes when treated by female physicians") Using the female doctor numbers I get a z-value of 8.36 which is well over the standard two-tailed significance value of 1.96 for p<0.05. With N being so large it looks like the gender of the patient is absolutely statistically significant with female doctors as well as male.
I feel like I must be missing something here but I'm such a beginner with statistics that I don't know what it is. Is it not a binomial distribution, is it not normally distributed? Am I plugging my numbers in wrong?
If you take the data from Table S2 and perform a two-sample binomial test (as seen here[0] and at 3 minutes here[1]) you can directly contradict a statement in the paper's abstract ("Male patients and female patients experience similar outcomes when treated by female physicians") Using the female doctor numbers I get a z-value of 8.36 which is well over the standard two-tailed significance value of 1.96 for p<0.05. With N being so large it looks like the gender of the patient is absolutely statistically significant with female doctors as well as male.
I feel like I must be missing something here but I'm such a beginner with statistics that I don't know what it is. Is it not a binomial distribution, is it not normally distributed? Am I plugging my numbers in wrong?
[0] - https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/113602/test-if-two... [1] - https://www.coursera.org/lecture/biostatistics-2/two-sample-...