Confidence intervals
By: Michael Smithson.
Series: Quantitative applications in the social sciences -- 140.; Sage university papers series -- no. 140.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Social sciences -- Statistical methods.; Confidence intervals.; Social sciences -- Mathematics.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).