This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

SUE L. HALL, MD
The Children's Mercy Hospital Section of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine 24th at Gilham Road Kansas City, MO 64108

Am J Dis Child. 1989;143(7):766.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.—In the article by Haque et al¹ in the December 1988 issue of AJDC, the authors concluded that mortality from neonatal sepsis (suspected or proved) was significantly reduced in a group of 30 infants treated in a prospective, randomized trial with IgM-enriched intravenous immunoglobulin (Pentaglobin, Biotest Pharma, Frankfurt, West Germany) in addition to antibiotics compared with a control group of 30 infants who were treated with antibiotics alone.

Their conclusion of a statistically significant (P<.001) reduction in mortality between the treated and control groups was based on the use of Student's t test for statistical analysis. Is there some rationale that makes use of the Student t test the appropriate test for analysis of these outcome data?

As outcome is a discrete and not a continuous or numerical parameter, a t test, which is a parametric test of the difference in means between two samples . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?