Confidence intervals / Michael Smithson.
"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 discip...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
[2003]
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| Series: | Quantitative applications in the social sciences ;
no. 07-140. |
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| Online Access: | SAGE |
| 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. Annotation |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 93 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1452212260 1412983762 9781452212265 9781412983761 |