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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by cheald on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:05PM (#31610920)
Correct, ">3.5 to 4.5" / "0.71 (CI, 0.60 to 0.84)" means "we're 95% confident that people who had 3.5 to 4.5 unsweetened coffees per day had 60-84% the risk of mortality of baseline (average 71%)".
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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by tawktiem on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:09PM (#31612401)
Ohhhhh, thank you! That makes sense. It seems there was an implicit assumption of 95% (p<0.05), is that right?
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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by cheald on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:44AM (#31650297)
Right. 95% is the most common threshold for a CI.
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