Journal of Orthodontics, Vol. 27, No. 4, 340,
December 2000
© 2000 British Orthodontic Society
Erratum
In Part I of the Statistics Series which appeared in Journal of Orthodontics Volume 27 Number 3 September 2000, an error was printed on page 270, second column. Lines 4 to 8 are reprinted below as they should have appeared.
Oxford University Press and the Editors apologise to the author and subscribers for this error.
Usually, a 95 per cent confidence interval (CI) is calculated. This is defined as
± t x SE. SE denotes the standard error of the mean, which is SD
n, here 124
20 = 226. It expresses the precision of the sample mean. The multiplier, t, is approximately 2 for a 95 per cent CI.