Calculating power for the comparison of dependent κ-coefficients

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-404

  Lin, Hung Mo ^a   Williamson, John M ^b   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

; Agreement; Generalized estimating equations; Power; Sample size

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142219343     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00412     Document Type: Article

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