BMJ 2003;326:219 ( 25 January )

Education and debate

Statistics Notes

Interaction revisited: the difference between two estimates

Douglas G Altman, professor of statistics in medicine a, J Martin Bland, professor of medical statistics b. 

a Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute for Health Sciences, Oxford OX3 7LF, b Department of Public Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE

Correspondence to: D G Altman doug.altman@cancer.org.uk
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We often want to compare two estimates of the same quantity derived from separate analyses. Thus we might want to compare the treatment effect in subgroups in a randomised trial, such as two age groups. The term for such a comparison is a test of interaction. In earlier Statistics Notes we discussed interaction in terms of heterogeneity of treatment effect.1-3 Here we revisit interaction and consider the concept more generally.

The comparison of two estimated quantities, such as means or proportions, each with its standard error, is a general method that can be applied widely. The two estimates should be independent, not obtained from the same individuals---examples are the results from subgroups in a randomised trial or from two independent studies. The samples should be large. If the estimates are E1 and E2 with standard errors SE(E1) and SE(E2), then the difference d=E1-. . . [Full text of this article]
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