The overall objective of the REFEREE project is to use recent Artificial Intelligence techniques to build a system that helps the informed but statistically non-expert reader to evaluate critically the medical literature on randomized controlled trials

The overall objective of the REFEREE project is to use recent Artificial Intelligence techniques to build a system that helps the informed but statistically non-expert reader to evaluate critically the medical literature on randomized controlled trials (RCT’sj. This system will contain and be able to apply dynamically the detailed specialized knowledge of Dr. Byron W. Brown, a biostatistician expert in the design and evaluation of randomized controlled trials. We have divided our overall objective into two goals: