""This book is to be recommended as a standard shelf reference ... and as a 'must' to be read by all who wish to better use and understand data involving dichotomous or dichotomizable measurements.". -- American Journal of Psychiatry. In the two decades since the second edition of Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions was published, evolving technologies and new methodologies have significantly changed the way today's statistics are viewed and handled. The explosive development of personal computing and statistical software has facilitated the sophisticated analysis of data."@en
"An introduction to applied probability; Assessing significance in a fourfold table; Determining sample sizes needed to detect a difference between two proportions; How to randomize; Sampling method; The analysis of data from matched samples; The comparison of proportions from several independent samples; Combining evidence from fourfold tables; The effects of misclassification errors; The control of misclassification error; The measurement of interrater agreement; The standardization of rates."
"* Includes a new chapter on logistic regression. * Discusses the design and analysis of random trials. * Explores the latest applications of sample size tables. * Contains a new section on binomial distribution."