Adequacy of Sample Size in Health Studies
Published on 25. October 1989
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-0-471-92517-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book gives solutions to typical problems and tables of minimum sample sizes, for various survey and study designs, with the corresponding formulae. It also gives the theoretical background to sample size determination covering populations, samples and their sampling distributions.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
22 line drawings, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 70 mm
Width: 50 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92517-0 (9780471925170)
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Content
Part 1 Statistical methods for sample size determination: the one sample problem; the two sample problem; sample size for case-control studies; sample size determination for cohort studies; lot quality assurance sampling; the incidence density; sample size for continuous response variables; sample size for sample surveys. Part 2 Foundations of sampling and statistical theory: the population; the sample; sampling distribution; characteristics of estimates of population parameters; hypothesis testing; two sample confidence intervals and hypothesis tests; epidemiologic study design; basis sampling concepts.