Equivalence Testing
Ton J. Cleophas MD, PhD, Associate-Professor, Aeilko H. Zwinderman Math D, PhD, Professor, Toine F. Cleophas D Techn · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
A study unable to find a difference is not the same as an equivalent study. For example, a study of 3 subjects does not find a significant difference simply because the sample size is too small. Equivalence testing is particularly important for studying the treatment of diseases for which a placebo control would unethical. In the situation a new treatment must be compared with standard treatment. The latter comparison is at risk of finding little differences. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.