Robert Gordon Newcombe

Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size

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Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates the use of effect size measures and corresponding confidence intervals as more informative alternatives to the most basic and widely used significance tests. It provides you with a deep understanding of what happens when these statistical methods are applied in situations far removed from the familiar Gaussian case. Requiri

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780367576707
• ISBN-10: 0367576708
• Artikelnr.: 69892648

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Newcombe is a professor in the Institute of Primary Care and Public Health at Cardiff University School of Medicine, where he teaches medical statistics and epidemiology and is involved in medical and dental research. Dr. Newcombe is a member of the editorial board of Statistical Methods in Medical Research and serves on the Cardiff & Vale Research Review Service and Wales Ambulance Service Trust Research & Development panels.

Inhaltsangabe

Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals. Means and Their Differences.
Confidence Intervals for a Simple Binomial Proportion. Criteria for
Optimality. Evaluation of Performance of Confidence Interval Methods.
Intervals for the Poisson Parameter and the Substitution Approach.
Difference between Independent Proportions and the Square-and-Add Approach.
Difference between Proportions Based on Individually Paired Data. Methods
for Triads of Proportions. Relative Risk and Rate Ratio. The Odds Ratio and
Logistic Regression. Screening and Diagnostic Tests. Widening the
Applicability of Confidence Interval Methods: The Propagating Imprecision
Approach. Several Applications of the MOVER and PropImp Approaches.
Generalised Mann-Whitney Measure. Generalised Wilcoxon Measure. References.
Appendices.