Confidence Intervals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761924999)

Smithson first introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and then provides the criteria for "best" confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs 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.



Author: Michael Smithson
ISBN-10: 076192499X
ISBN-13: 9780761924999
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2002
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.24d