Re: st: references supporting reporting CI

[Buzz Burhans <wsb2@cornell.edu>]

Thanks very much Roger.  I appreciate the information; and appreciate also 
your frequent and very helpful contributions, both to this list and to the 
library of user written ado files.  I have been a frequent and grateful 
user of several of your contributions.

Buzz Burhans



At 05:37 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, you wrote:

> At 15:18 18/10/2005, Buzz wrote:
> > Some time ago in a post to this list 
> > (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-08/msg00288.html ) Roger 
> > Newson provided a reference supporting the reporting of confidence 
> > intervals versus P values:
> >
> > Douglas Altman, David Machin, Trevor Bryant, Martin Gardner. Statistics 
> > with Confidence. London: British Medical Journal Books; 2000. ISBN: 0727913751
> >
> >
> > Can anyone supply other references, (particularly papers v. books) 
> > supporting the preference for reporting confidence intervals?
> In case Buzz does not have a copy of the Altman et al. book, one of its 
> key references supporting confidence intervals is
>
> Rothman K. A vote of confidence. New England Journal of Medicine 1978; 
> 299: 1362-1363.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Roger
>
>
>
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