Re: st: references supporting reporting CI

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

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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