John wiley & sons inc Sample size determination and power (John Wiley & Sons Inc)

Featuring a comprehensive approach to sample size determination for general statistical use, this book uniquely blends applications from a variety of fields including statistics, biostatistics, the health sciences, and engineering. Topical coverage includes: hypothesis testing concepts and issues; confidence intervals; multivariate and factor analysis; computer-aided trial design; sample size determination methods; means and variances; epidemiology; microarrays; survival analysis; proportions and rates; regression methods and correlation; experimental designs; clinical trials; quality improvement; survival analysis and reliability; and nonparametric methods.