Confidence Intervals
| Author/creator | Smithson, Michael Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
| Description | 104 p. ill 08.500 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SAGE Research Methods Core |
| Subjects |
| Series | Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation 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. </p> <p></p> <p>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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002009707 |
| ISBN | 9780761924999 |
| ISBN | 076192499X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780761924999 |
| Stock number | 407140 00023123 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |