Confidence intervals / Michael Smithson.
Material type: ArticleSeries: Sage university papers series. Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-140.Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Sage Publications, c2003.Description: vi, 93 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780761924999 (pbk.) :
- 076192499X
- 519.538 SAG
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction and Overview--2. Confidence statements and Interval Estimates--Decisions and Criteria for Confidence Intervals--Why confidence intervals?--3. 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--4. Noncentral Confidence Interval for Standardized Effect Sizes--Noncentral Distributions--Computing noncentral confidence intervals--5. Applications in ANOVA and Regression--Fixed-effects versus Random-effects models--Fixed-effects ANOVA--Random-effects ANOVA-- A prior 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--6. 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--7. 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--8. Concluding Remarks.