Confidence Intervals
- Michael Smithson - Australian National University
Volume:
140
November 2002 | 104 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Smithson first introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and then provides the criteria for "best" confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs between confidence and precision. Next, using a reader-friendly style with lots of worked out examples from various disciplines, he covers such pertinent topics as: the transformation principle whereby a confidence interval for a parameter may be used to construct an interval for any monotonic transformation of that parameter; confidence intervals on distributions whose shape changes with the value of the parameter being estimated; and, the relationship between confidence interval and significance testing frameworks, particularly regarding power.
Ch 1 Introduction and Overview
Ch 2 Confidence Statements and Interval Estimates
Ch 3 Central Confidence Intervals
Ch 4 Noncentral Confidence Intervals for Standardized Effect Sizes
Ch 5 Applications in Anova and Regression
Ch 6 Applications in Categorical Data Analysis
Ch 7 Significance Tests and Power Analysis
Concluding Remarks
References
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