Modeling and inference for an ordinal effect size measure

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1703-1717

  Ryu, Euijung ^a   Agresti, Alan ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Logit models; Mann Whitney statistic; Matched pairs; Multinomial distributions; Ordinal data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; SHOULDER PAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SHOULDER; SHOULDER PAIN; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 42449146735     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3079     Document Type: Article

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