Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size illustrates the use of effect size measures and corresponding confidence intervals as more informative alternatives to the most basic and widely used significance tests. The book provides you with a deep understanding of what happens when these statistical methods are applied in situations far removed from the familiar Gaussian case.
Drawing on his extensive work as a statistician and professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine, the author brings together methods for calculating confidence intervals for proportions and several other important measures, including differences, ratios, and nonparametric effect size measures generalizing Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests. He also explains three important approaches to obtaining intervals for related measures. Many examples illustrate the application of the methods in the health and social sciences. Requiring little computational skills, the book offers user-friendly Excel spreadsheets for download at www.crcpress.com, enabling you to easily apply the methods to your own empirical data.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals
Chapter 2 : Means and Their Differences
Chapter 3 : Confidence Intervals for a Simple Binomial Proportion
Chapter 4 : Criteria for Optimality
Chapter 5 : Evaluation of Performance of Confidence Interval Methods
Chapter 6 : Intervals for the Poisson Parameter and the Substitution Approach
Chapter 7 : Difference between Independent Proportions and the Square-and-Add Approach
Chapter 8 : Difference between Proportions Based on Individually Paired Data
Chapter 9 : Methods for Triads of Proportions
Chapter 10 : Relative Risk and Rate Ratio
Chapter 11 : The Odds Ratio and Logistic Regression
Chapter 12 : Screening and Diagnostic Tests
Chapter 13 : Widening the Applicability of Confidence Interval Methods: The Propagating Imprecision Approach
Chapter 14 : Several Applications of the MOVER and PropImp Approaches
Chapter 15 : Generalised Mann–Whitney Measure
Chapter 16 : Generalised Wilcoxon Measure
References
Appendices
Index
