Mean Difference with confidence intervals

Question

So I'm running an experiment that tests rodents consumption of seeds. The results showed that rodents from the control group consumed 898 seeds on average whereas another group of rodents that received treated seeds consumed only 447 seeds on average. I would like to express these results as the phrase, "rodents from the treatment group consumed 50.2% less seeds than those from the control." {1-(447/898)=.502} Calculating the percent change is easy enough, but I would like to build a confidence interval around that relative percent change. Is there a simple way to calculate this or a shortcut in JMP that might display it?

Mananahi · Answer

Thank you for your proposed solution, but it only gives the confidence interval of the absolute difference. what I'm searching for is the confidence interval of the relative difference.

The phrase, "Rodents that recieved seeds treated in compound A ate 451 less seeds than those offered control seeds.(CI: 3??, 5??)," is not nearly as informative as the phrase, "Rodents that recieved seeds treated in compound A ate 50.2% less seeds than those offered control seeds.(CI: ??%, ??%),"

I could publish this phrase without a confidence interval, but I feel that it would raise questions from a statistically minded review without the interval.

Mark_Bailey · Answer

Select Analyze > Fit Model. Enter your response as Y and your predictor with Add (Effects) and click Run. Click the red triangle at the top left and select Estimates > Multiple Comparisons, select Comparisons with Control - Dunnett, and then click OK. Select your control level and click OK. You will get a table like this:

Can you use the differences here for your purpose? Note that you can right-click on the table and select Make Into Data Table. You can now use column formulas to compute values or visualize the table with Graph Builder.

I don't know how to calculate percentages.

Mananahi · Answer

Sorry, I should have clarified with the initial question. I'm actually doing an ANOVA. I need to compare 6 types of treated seed to a control. Is there a way to get the difference confidence interval in the Fit Model Output. Also how would you suggest converting this difference to a percent? I'm not sure what the denominator would be.