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Confidence Intervals

Volume: 140
January 2003 | 104 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Using lots of easy to understand examples from different disciplines, the author introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and provides the criteria for `best' confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs between confidence and precision.

The book 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
Why Confidence Intervals?

 
 
Ch 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

 
Transformation Principle

 
 
Ch 4 Noncentral Confidence Intervals for Standardized Effect Sizes
Noncentral Distributions

 
Computing Noncentral Confidence Intervals

 
 
Ch 5 Applications in Anova and Regression
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 Models

 
 
Ch 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

 
 
Ch 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

 
 
Concluding Remarks
 
References
 
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