Five superiority trials evaluated nurse practitioners in complementary roles comparing nurse practitioner interventions plus usual care to usual care alone.
The non-inferiority hypothesis did not apply for these other end points; we present 95% confidence intervals and P values from two sided superiority tests.
100 The most common design for published randomised trials is the parallel group, two arm, superiority trial with 1 1 allocation ratio.
[New York Daily News] One-third of this year's MacArthur geniuses live in New York City, fueling more than eight million local superiority complexes.
Despite one study (by Jaffar and colleagues) being an equivalence trial, another (by Matovu and colleagues) being a non-inferiority trial and the other three being superiority trials, this did not affect the overall result (i.e. no evidence of heterogeneity).
These confusing titles are believed to date from a papal ruling at the end of the 12th Century to settle the row over who is the superior of the two archbishops, granting superiority to Canterbury, but making York a primate too.
Six of these seven trials showed superiority of the antipsychotic compared with placebo.
Two areas of superiority: it supports Microsoft Office and Xbox Live.
It has been said that the leadership styles of Kennedy and Nixon were based on two types of superiority: contempt and resentment.
The concept was one of paternity at two levels; qualitative superiority emanated from the notion of divine paternity, but one's position in society came from the human husband of one's mother.
