Testing Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence
Editorial Reviews
Review
The main value of the book is in its rather comprehensive and explicit treatment of various tests for equivalence problems. The book is very carefully written and mathematically correct..applied (bio-)statisticians may find this book a helpful manual for various testing procedures in the field of equivalence testing. These procedures are very carefully described and are accompanied by SAS of Fortran code. More mathematically oriented readers may regard this book as a good source of examples, and the thorough discussion of relevant practical questions in the field might stimulate them to doing further research in this area.
-Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2004
The book is well organized for the applied statistician with an interest in the theoretical background for statistical procedures. What is especially useful about this book for the applied statistician is that the author weaves into the presentation of the equivalence tests, discussions of power, and sample size as well as simulation results that evaluate the small sample properties of the tests. In addition, a location on the World Wide Web where one can find SAS programs to facilitate the implementation of these tests is provided... Wellek has provided a text on equivalence testing that the applied statistician will find useful both as a theory underlying equivalence testing as well as a source of equivalence tests and tools for their implementation for a wide variety of situations.
-Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
The publication of a book specifically dealing with the statistical issues and methods surrounding the assessment of equivalence is timely...the primary objective of this book is stated to be: 'a systematic and comprehensive account of testing procedures for the alternative hypothesis'. It achieves this well.
-Current Medical Research Opinion (CMRO) 2004
.. this book provides the reader with the opportunity to do equivalence testing for various statistical problems. The author has helpfully provided a collection of computer programs (in SAS and Fortran) that allow for easy implementation of the methods presented...I was left feeling that this book provides a good grounding in statistical techniques to do hypothesis testing in equivalence trials.
-Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2003
Wellek has done a commendable service to the academic community by providing the first comprehensive treatment of testing hypotheses of equivalence, since most of the work in this area so far is confined to research journals. …Overall, this excellent book has great potential for applications and should interest students and researchers alike. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
- D.V. Chopra in CHOICE
Book Description
The statistical concept of equivalence has gained considerable importance over the last two decades, with applications in medical and biopharmaceutical research. This book gives a systematic account of equivalence assessment through formal statistical testing procedures. Each procedure is illustrated with an example, with most taken from actual medical research, and the author provides extensive computational tools. This is the first book to coherently present the subject as both a reference for solutions to specific problems and as a collection of theoretical tools from which readers can derive methods for problems not discussed in the text.
Testing Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence
Testing Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence,Stefan Wellek,Chapman & Hall/CRC,1584881607,Biostatistics,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Mathematical Statistics,Mathematics,Medical Research,Probability & Statistics - General,Research,Science/Mathematics,Statistical hypothesis testing,Epidemiology & medical statistics,Mathematics / Statistics,Pharmacology,Probability & statistics
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