Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range
Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range
In systematic reviews and meta-analysis, researchers often pool the results of the sample mean and standard deviation from a set of similar clinical trials. A number of the trials, however, reported the study using the median, the minimum and maximum values, and/or the first and third quartiles. Hence, in order …