CRC Press Statistical Analysis of Contingency Tables

Statistical Analysis of Contingency Tables is an invaluable tool for statistical inference in contingency tables. It covers effect size estimation, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests for the binomial and the multinomial distributions, unpaired and paired 2x2 tables, rxc tables, ordered rx2 and 2xc tables, paired cxc tables, and stratified tables. For each type of table, key concepts are introduced, and a wide range of intervals and tests, including recent and unpublished methods and developments, are presented and evaluated. Topics such as diagnostic accuracy, inter-rater reliability, and missing data are also covered. The presentation is concise and easily accessible for readers with diverse professional backgrounds, with the mathematical details kept to a minimum. For more information, including a sample chapter and software, please visit the authors' . Review "The contingency table is one of the simplest and best explored methods for summarising and analysing. This extensive book covers all areas of contingency table analysis. The initial chapters describe in depth, and with examples, one particular type of table, characterized by size (the number of rows and the number of columns), whether the variables are ordinal or nominal, whether the tables are stratified or not, and whether the observations are paired or unpaired. Other chapters consider meta-analysis, sample size issues, and inter-rater agreement studies. The style of the book reflects the simplicity of the subject. Each topic is considered on its own merit, and the latest research in this topic is discussed and illustrated. The mathematics is easily accessible. This book is encyclopaedic in its coverage and would be useful to graduate students and all applied statisticians who are always dealing with contingency tables."―Professor MJ Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield "This encyclopaedic book deals comprehensively with statistical methods for data arranged as one and two dimensional contingency tables and stratified data. The detailed evaluation of the performance of various competing methods heeds recently developed as well as more traditional criteria. Numerous practical examples are given, mainly from the healthcare domain, alongside Matlab and R code for all the methods recommended. I strongly recommend the book both to statisticians and to researchers in health and social disciplines."―Robert G. Newcombe, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University, Author of Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size "This 600+ page book comprehensively covers the analysis of one-, two- and three-dimensional (stratified) contingency tables. Such low-dimensional tables are the types of contingency tables that most researchers encounter in real life. The book is primarily for practitioners at Master’s and/or PhD level. This book is highly recommended because it covers over 250 analytic methods, includes up-to-date material typically only found in specialist journals, evaluates alternative analytic methods, makes recommendations for their practical use, and illustrates the use of the methods on real life data. A companion website provides Matlab- and R-code for almost all the methods described. The book is unique because it is so comprehensive and up-to-date, its chapters are to a large extent self-contained so that the analyst will find all they need to know in the relevant chapter without having to read the preceding chapters, and the recommendations make the book more practically useful than other texts. In summary, an essential book to own if you analyse low-dimensional contingency tables."―John McDonald, Professor of Social Statistics (retired), University of Southampton "The authors provide an in-depth survey of the overwhelmingly large number of methods that are now available for conducting statistical inference with contingency tab