Research Catalog

Title

Odds ratios in the analysis of contingency tables / Tamás Rudas.

Author

Rudas, Tamás

Publication

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1998.

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Description

vi, 79 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

In this volume the author shows how odds ratios can be used as a framework for understanding log-linear models. The book moves from paradigmatic 2x2 case to more complicated cases. The author also carefully defines the odds ratio.

Series Statement

Sage university papers series. Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-119

Uniform Title

Quantitative applications in the social sciences no. 07-119.

Subject

• Contingency tables
• Linear Models
• Odds Ratio
• Social sciences > Statistical methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The odds ratio in 2 x 2 tables -- The odds ratio as a measure of association -- Variation independence of the odds ratio and the marginals -- Log-linear representation of the cell probabilities -- 2. The odds ratio in I x J tables -- Local odds ratios -- The spanning cell approach -- The variation independence persists -- Log-linear models and odds ratios -- Association models with patterns of the local odds ratios -- Prescribing the values of the local odds ratios: generalized log-linear models -- 3. 2k tables -- Conditional odds ratios -- Mixed parameterization of the call probabilities -- Log-linear and generalized log-linear models -- 4. General tables -- Conditional local or spanning cell odds ratios -- Mixed parameterization of the cell probabilities -- Log-linear and other association models -- Log-linear parameters and conditional odds ratios.

ISBN

0761903623 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97033790^

OCLC

37573245

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library