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  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Outcome transformation is common in clinical nutrition research.
  • Back-transformation of analyzed data is complex due to nonlinear transformations.
  • Interpreting transformed data and calculating standard errors is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a general and practical method for back-transforming estimated treatment differences.
  • To provide accurate standard errors and confidence intervals for back-transformed estimates.
  • To simplify the interpretation of results from transformed data in clinical nutrition.

Main Methods:

  • An approximate procedure was developed and evaluated.
  • The method was tested using data from two randomized controlled trials.
  • Results were compared with previously published analyses.

Main Results:

  • Back-transformed estimated differences on original scales showed good agreement with original study findings.
  • Logarithm, square root, and reciprocal square root transformations were assessed.
  • The procedure yielded accurate estimates for treatment differences.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed approximate procedure offers a flexible approach for accurate back-transformed estimated differences.
  • The method facilitates the derivation of corresponding standard errors.
  • This technique enhances the interpretability of findings in clinical nutrition studies.