1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463507503321

Autore

Altman Douglas

Titolo

Statistics with confidence : confidence intervals and statistical guidelines / / Douglas Altman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2013

ISBN

1-118-70251-4

1-322-19630-3

0-7279-1375-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MachinDavid

BryantTrevor

GardnerMartin

Disciplina

362.102

610.727

Soggetti

Analysis of variance

Confidence intervals

Statistics as topic -- Methods

Statistics as Topic

Confidence Intervals

Epidemiologic Methods

Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms

Mathematics

Quality of Health Care

Investigative Techniques

Natural Science Disciplines

Public Health

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Environment and Public Health

Disciplines and Occupations

Health Care

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Contributors; Source of contents; Introduction; PART I ESTIMATION AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; 1 Estimating with confidence; 2 Confidence intervals in practice; 3 Confidence intervals rather than P values; 4 Means and their differences; 5 Medians and their differences; 6 Proportions and their differences; 7 Epidemiological studies; 8 Regression and correlation; 9 Time to event studies; 10 Diagnostic tests; 11 Clinical trials and meta-analyses; 12 Confidence intervals and sample sizes; 13 Special topics; PART II STATISTICAL GUIDELINES AND CHECKLISTS

14 Statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals 15 Statistical checklists; PART III NOTATION, SOFTWARE, AND  TABLES; 16 Notation; 17 Computer software for calculating confidence intervals (CIA); 18 Tables for the calculation of confidence intervals; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This highly popular introduction to confidence intervals has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It includes methods for using confidence intervals, with illustrative worked examples and extensive guidelines and checklists to help the novice.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162818703321

Autore

Bell David M.

Titolo

Rethinking Utopia : place, power, affect / / David M. Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , [2017]

ISBN

1-317-48670-6

1-315-70969-4

1-317-48671-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 pages)

Collana

Routledge Innovations in Political Theory ; ; 71

Disciplina

307.770973

335.02

Soggetti

Utopias - United States

Utopias - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.



Nota di contenuto

1. Rethinking the present ; or, our post-Utopian, most-utopian, anti-Utopian dystopia -- 2. Rethinking contemporary Utopianism -- 3. Rethinking Utopian studies -- 4. Rethinking the good place -- 5. Rethinking the no-good place.

Sommario/riassunto

Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in - or rather because of - the condition of 'post-utopianism' that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of 'radical' theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future. He proposes paying a 'subversive fidelity' to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: 'good' (eu), 'place' (topos), and 'no' (ou) are rethought to assert the importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical improvisation; and utopian literature. The problems as well as the possibilities of this utopianism are explored, although the problems are often revealed to be possibilities, provided they are subject to material challenge. Rethinking Utopia offers a way of thinking about (and perhaps realising) utopia that helps overcome some of the binary oppositions structuring much thinking about the topic. It allows utopia to be thought in terms of place and process; affirmation and negation; and the real and the not-yet. It engages with the spatial and affective turns in the social sciences without ever uncritically being subsumed by them; and seeks to make connections to indigenous cosmologies. It is a cautious, careful, critical work punctuated by both pessimism and hope; and a refusal to accept the finality of this or any world.