Simple improved confidence intervals for comparing matched proportions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 729-740

  Agresti, Alan ^a   Min, Yongyi ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Difference of proportions; Logit model; Odds ratio; Score confidence interval; Wald confidence interval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 14544303628     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1781     Document Type: Article

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