does anyone understand this please?

[ilovemarkb]

Two sensitivity analyses were also carried out to assess the impact of protocol violators on the conclusions drawn from the ITT analyses ???

Basically this is a research paper that looks at honey and wound healing in 114 patients

[HowardKennitby]

I have no idea. You might be better posting this in Science.

[bigbadmarty]

It refers to the statistical analysis of the data in the survey ... I think

[factor-fiction]

Sensitivity analysis looks at the how sensitive the result are to changes to certain factors. They are sometimes referred to as "what if" analyses.
http://businessplanhu...d-components-involved

In this case it looks at the impact of changes to 'protocol violators'. A protocol deviation is any change, divergence, or departure from
the study design or procedures of a research protocol that is under the investigator’s control and that has not been approved

http://www.genome.gov...tion_examples8-07.pdf

[ilovemarkb]

thankyou!!you have helped me lots on here!! Definitely worthy of a tin of Cadburys Roses!!