Fleiss / Levin / Paik Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions

3. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-62561-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 800 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

"This book is to be recommended as a standard shelf reference . . .and as a 'must' to be read by all who wish to betteruse and understand data involving dichotomous or dichotomizablemeasurements."
--American Journal of Psychiatry
In the two decades since the second edition of StatisticalMethods for Rates and Proportions was published, evolvingtechnologies and new methodologies have significantly changed theway today's statistics are viewed and handled. The explosivedevelopment of personal computing and statistical software hasfacilitated the sophisticated analysis of data, puttingcapabilities that were once the domain of specialists into thehands of every researcher.
The Third Edition of this important text addresses thesechanges and brings the literature up to date. While the previousedition focused on the use of desktop and handheld calculators, thenew edition takes full advantage of modern computing power withoutlosing the elegant simplicity that made the text so popular withstudents and practitioners alike. In authoritative yet clearterminology, the authors have brought the science of data analysisup to date without compromising its accessibility.
Features of the Third Edition include:
* New material on sample size calculations and issues in clinicaltrials, and entirely new chapters on single-sample data, logisticregression, Poisson regression, regression models for matchedsamples, the analysis of correlated binary data, and methods foranalyzing fourfold tables with missing data
* The addition of many new problems, both numerical andtheoretical
* Answer sections for numerical problems and hints for tacklingthe theoretical ones
* A frequentist approach enhanced by the inclusion of empiricalBayesian methodology where appropriate
Combining the latest research with the original studies thatestablished the previous editions as leaders in the field,Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions, Third Editionwill continue to be an invaluable resource for students,statisticians, biostatisticians, and epidemiologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleiss, Joseph L.

Levin, Bruce

Paik, Myunghee Cho

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
1. An Introduction to Applied Probability.
2. Statistical Inference for a Single Proportion.
3. Assessing Significance in a Fourfold Table.
4. Determining Sample Sizes Needed to Detect a DifferenceBetween Two Proportions.
5. How to Randomize.
6. Comparative Studies: Cross-Sectional, Naturalistic, orMultinomial Sampling.
7. Comparative Studies: Prospective and RetrospectiveSampling.
8. Randomized Controlled Trials.
9. The Comparison of Proportions from Several IndependentSamples.
10. Combining Evidence from Fourfold Tables.
11. Logistic Regression.
12. Poisson Regression.
13. Analysis of Data from Matched Samples.
14. Regression Models for Matched Samples.
15. Analysis of Correlated Binary Data.
16. Missing Data.
17. Misclassification Errors: Effects, Control, andAdjustment.
18. The Measurement of Interrater Agreement.
19. The Standardization of Rates.
Appendix A. Numerical Tables.
Appendix B. The Basic Theory of Maximum LikelihoodEstimation.
Appendix C. Answers to Selected Problems.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

JOSEPH L. FLEISS, PhD, headed the Division of Biostatisticsat Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health inNew York for seventeen years. He is also the author of a previousbook, The Design and Analysis of Clinical Experiments, alsofrom Wiley.
BRUCE LEVIN, PhD, is the current Chair of the Departmentof Biostatistics at Columbia University. His research interestsinclude categorical data analysis, clinical trials, sequentialexperimentation, statistics in law, and reproductiveepidemiology.
MYUNGHEE CHO PAIK, PhD, is a professor in the Departmentof Biostatistics at Columbia University's Mailman School ofPublic Health.