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Informationen zum Autor Michael P. Fay is a Mathematical Statistician at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and previously worked at the National Cancer Institute. He has served as associate editor for Biometrics, and is currently an associate editor for Clinical Trials and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is a co-author on over 100 papers in statistical and medical journals and has written and maintains over a dozen R packages on CRAN. Erica H. Brittain is Deputy Branch Chief of Biostatistics Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and has well over three decades of experience as a statistician, with previous positions at FDA, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and a statistical consulting company. Her applied work at NIH and her methodological publications in statistical journals focus on innovation in clinical trial design. She frequently serves on advisory panels for FDA and NIH, and has served as Statistical Consultant for Nature journals and Associate Editor for Controlled Clinical Trials. Zusammenfassung With over 60 years of applied experience, Fay and Brittain present hypothesis testing and compatible confidence intervals, emphasize strategies to address the reproducibility crisis, and provide methods for proper causal interpretation in scientific research. The book presents a full scope of tools and advice on their appropriate use in practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Theory of tests, p-values, and confidence intervals; 3. From scientific theory to statistical hypothesis test; 4. One sample studies with binary responses; 5. One sample studies with ordinal or numeric responses; 6. Paired data; 7. Two sample studies with binary responses; 8. Assumptions and hypothesis tests; 9. Two sample studies with ordinal or numeric responses; 10. General methods for creating decision rules; 11. K-Sample studies and trend tests; 12. Clustering and stratification; 13. Multiplicity in testing; 14. Testing from models; 15. Causality; 16. Censoring; 17. Missing data; 18. Group sequential and related adaptive methods; 19. Testing fit, equivalence, and non-inferiority; 20. Power and sample size....
