Measuring Agreement
Models, Methods, and Applications
Will be published approx. on 2. January 2018
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-1-118-07858-7 (ISBN)
Description
Measuring Agreement Methodology and Applications successfully blends the currently available statistical methodologies for agreement evaluation in a unified, coherent, and lucid manner.
This up-to-date and comprehensive book describes the theoretical underpinnings of the methodologies and presents case studies using several real data sets to illustrate the application of the methodologies. A perfect reference for statisticians, biostatisticians, clinical chemists, and biomedical scientists
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Graphs: 50 B&W, 0 Color
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 182 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-07858-7 (9781118078587)
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Persons
P. K. Choudhary, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Currently, he is also the Associate Head of the department. His research interests include development of statistical methodology for biostatistical applications, and he has published extensively in the field of method comparison studies.
H. N. Nagaraja, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University where he has served in the Departments of Statistics and Internal Medicine and the Division of Biostatistics. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. His published work includes Order Statistics, Third Edition (with H. A. David) and Records (with B. C. Arnold and N. Balakrishnan), both published by Wiley.
Content
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Preview
1.2 Notational conventions
1.3 Basic characteristics of a measurement method
1.4 Method comparison studies
1.5 Meaning of agreement
1.6 A measurement error model
1.7 Similarity versus agreement
1.8 A toy example
1.9 Controversies and our view
1.10 Concepts related to agreement
1.11 Role of confidence intervals and hypotheses testing
1.12 Common models for paired measurements data
1.13 The Bland Altman plot
1.14 Common regression approaches
1.15 Inappropriate use of common tests in method comparison studies
1.16 Key steps in the analysis of method comparison data
1.17 Chapter summary
1.18 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 2: Common Approaches for Measuring Agreement
2.1 Preview
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Mean squared deviation
2.4 Concordance correlation coefficient
2.5 A digression: Tolerance and prediction intervals
2.6 Lin's probability criterion and Bland Altman criterion
2.7 Limits of agreement
2.8 Total deviation index and coverage probability
2.9 Inference on agreement measures
2.10 Chapter summary
2.11 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 3: A General Approach for Modeling and Inference
3.1 Preview
3.2 Mixed effects models
3.3 A large-sample approach for inference
3.4 Modeling and analysis of method comparison data
3.5 Chapter summary
3.6 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 4: Paired Measurements Data
4.1 Preview
4.2 Modeling of data
4.3 Evaluation of similarity and agreement
4.4 Case studies
4.5 Chapter summary
4.6 Technical details
4.7 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 5: Repeated Measurements Data
5.1 Preview
5.2 Introduction
5.3 Displaying data
5.4 Modeling of data
5.5 Evaluation of similarity and agreement
5.6 Evaluation of repeatability
5.7 Case studies
5.8 Chapter summary
5.9 Technical details
5.10 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 6: Heteroscedastic Data
6.1 Preview
6.2 Introduction
6.3 Variance function models
6.4 Repeated measurements data
6.5 Paired measurements data
6.6 Chapter summary
6.7 Technical details
6.8 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 7: Data from Multiple Methods
7.1 Preview
7.2 Introduction
7.3 Displaying data
7.4 Example datasets
7.5 Modeling unreplicated data
7.6 Modeling repeated measurements data
7.7 Model fitting and evaluation
7.8 Evaluation of similarity and agreement
7.9 Evaluation of repeatability
7.10 Case studies
7.11 Chapter summary
7.12 Technical details
7.13 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 8: Data with Covariates
8.1 Preview
8.2 Introduction
8.3 Modeling of data
8.4 Evaluation of similarity, agreement and repeatability
8.5 Case study
8.6 Chapter summary
8.7 Technical details
8.8 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 9: Longitudinal Data
9.1 Preview
9.2 Introduction
9.3 Modeling of data
9.4 Evaluation of similarity and agreement
9.5 Case study
9.6 Chapter summary
9.7 Technical details
9.8 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 10: A Nonparametric Approach
10.1 Preview
10.2 Introduction
10.3 The statistical functional approach
10.4 Evaluation of similarity and agreement
10.5 Case studies
10.6 Chapter summary
10.7 Technical details
10.8 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 11: Sample Size Determination
11.1 Preview
11.2 Introduction
11.3 The sample size methodology
11.4 Case study
11.5 Chapter summary
11.6 Bibliographic note
Exercises
Chapter 12: Categorical Data
12.1 Preview
12.2 Introduction
12.3 Experimental setups and examples
12.4 Cohen's kappa coefficient for dichotomous data
12.5 Kappa type measures for more than two categories
12.6 Case studies
12.7 Models for exploring agreement
12.8 Discussion
12.9 Chapter summary
12.10 Bibliographic note
Exercises
References
Dataset List
Index