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Title

• Confidence intervals / Michael Smithson.

Author

Smithson, Michael

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2003.

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Description

vi, 93 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Smithson first introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and then provides the criteria for "best" confidence intervals, along with the tradeoffs 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."--Pub. desc.

Series Statement

• Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 140

Uniform Title

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-140.

Subject

• Confidence Intervals
• Confidence intervals
• Social sciences > Mathematics
• Social sciences > Statistical methods
• Sociometric Techniques

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Confidence Statements and Interval Estimates -- Decisions and Criteria for Confidence Intervals -- Why Confidence Intervals? -- Central Confidence Intervals -- Central and Standardizable Versus Noncentral Distributions -- Confidence Intervals Using the Central t and Normal Distributions -- Confidence Intervals Using the Central Chi-Square and F Distributions -- The Transformation Principle -- Noncentral Confidence Intervals for Standardized Effect Sizes -- Noncentral Distributions -- Computing Noncentral Confidence Intervals -- Applications in ANOVA and Regression -- Fixed-Effects Versus Random-Effects Models -- Fixed-Effects ANOVA -- Random-Effects ANOVA -- A Priori and Post Hoc Contrasts -- Regression: Multiple, Partial, and Semi-Partial Correlations -- Effect-Size Statistics for MANOVA and Setwise Regression -- Confidence Interval for a Regression Coefficient -- Goodness-of-Fit Indices in Structural Equations Model -- Applications in Categorical Data Analysis -- Odds Ratio, Difference Between Proportions, and Relative Risk -- Chi-Square Confidence Intervals for One Variable -- Two-Way Contingency Tables -- Effects in Log-Linear and Logistic Regression Models -- Significance Tests and Power Analysis -- Significance Tests and Model Comparison -- Power and Precision -- Designing Studies Using Power Analysis and Confidence Intervals -- Confidence Intervals for Power.

ISBN

076192499X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002009707

OCLC

50042712

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