The Analysis of Contingency Tables

by Brian S. Everitt

Overview

Much of the data collected in medicine and the social sciences is categorical, for example, sex, marital status, blood group, whether a smoker or not and so on, rather than interval-scaled. Frequently the researcher collecting such data is interested in the relationships or associations between pairs, or between a set of such categorical variables;

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040074749
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	02/01/1992
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	358 KB

Table of Contents

1. Contingency tables and the chi-square test 2. 2x 2 contingency tables 3. r x c contingency tables 4. Multidimensional tables 5. Log-linear models for contingency tables 6. Linear-logistic models 7. Contingency tables with ordered categories 8. Some special types of contingency table

Editorial Reviews

For the practicing researcher in medical or social sciences, explains the statistical techniques for comparing the data in categories, for example, comparing smoker/non-smoker against death by lung cancer/death by other cause. The second edition (first in 1977) includes more detail on methods now in fashion. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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