US Pharma MarketingOnce confounding variables are balanced, statistical analysis can reveal that a pattern does not hold up at the population level. A clinician sees a pattern in their own patients. They run the numbers to check it, and the numbers seem to confirm what they already suspected. But that confirmation might not be real. “Often a clinician at the point of care will come to us with a hunch — ‘I’ve seen a bunch of these patients, I think this might be going on’ — and when you run the unmatched analysis, without statistical balancing, it can appear to confirm that…
A clinician sees a pattern in their own patients. They run the numbers to check it, and the numbers seem to confirm what they already suspected. But that confirmation might not be real. “Often a clinician at the point of care will come to us with a hunch — ‘I’ve seen a bunch of these…
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