In: Statistics and Probability
In the study, the authors state the following: “Because ventilator-free days and days free of multiple organ dysfunction syndromes are known to have a bimodal distribution, the data were initially analyzed by means of Student’s t-test, with between-group differences presented as means and 95% confidence intervals. A secondary analysis of these outcome measures involving a bootstrapped t-test was also conducted to support the results of the primary analysis…”
Try to Justify the logic of these two sentences.
i. why did they initially use a method based on Student’s t-test and why did they do a secondary analysis with a “bootstrapped t-test”. Try to explain briefly what the latter means.
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