Product Description

This highly popular introduction to confidence intervals has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It includes methods for using confidence intervals, with illustrative worked examples and extensive guidelines and checklists to help the novice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69477 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"The great value of this book is that it presents, in an easily understood form, the methods which will be needed in most situations" – Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

"...this is a superb book, full of useful information.

...The book is logically organized into 18 short, highly readable chapters.

...as a teaching tool, it is invaluable...this book is a handy reference to have on one′s bookshelf with nearly all confidence interval formulae organized in one place.

...In summary, Statistics with Confidence and the CIA software are resources that every biostatistician could benefit from."

TSHS, pp. 4–5

From the Back Cover
Statistics with Confidence is a widely acclaimed classic introduction to confidence intervals. The second edition, with contributions from leading medical statisticians, has been thoroughly revised and expanded.

New chapters include:

• diagnostic studies.


• clinical trials and meta analyses.


• confidence intervals and sample sizes.

The Windows computer software (CIA) in the accompanying disk enables confidence intervals to be calculated using the methods described in the book. This comprehensive collection of methods includes some that are not readily available elsewhere.

Featuring methods for using confidence intervals, illustrative worked examples and helpful checklists this is a truly practical guide for clinical readers to a fundamental aspect of medical statistics.

Customer Reviews

Eminently readable and even enjoyable.
This book was a real pleasure to read. It made the sometimes murky field of confidence intervals almost crystal clear. -some of the formulas do however need to be skipped to keep one's sanity. Overall it is the best book on statistics I have ever read.

Does what it says on the tin
Useful and well written overview of the calculation of confidence intervals, and the reasons we all should be using them. The diskette provides a handy program to take the sting out of the maths, so none of us have any excuse. If you are looking for detailed mathematical explanations of probability distribution functions however, you will need to look elsewhere.