Biostatistics for dummies
By: by John C. Pezzullo
Series: ---For dummies; --For dummies
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781118553985
Subjects: Biometry
Description: Biostatisticans are charged with binding answers to some of the world's most pressing health questions. This guide covers the relevant topics you'd encounter in a biostatistics course, and provides plain-English explanations of important concepts.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: About This Book; title: Conventions Used in This Book; title: What You're Not to Read; title: Foolish Assumptions; title: How This Book Is Organized; title: Icons Used in This Book; title: Where to Go from Here.; title: Part I: Beginning with Biostatistics Basics. Chapter 1: Biostatistics 101; title: Chapter 2: Overcoming Mathophobia: Reading and Understanding Mathematical Expressions; title: Chapter 3: Getting Statistical: A Short Review of Basic Statistics; title: Chapter 4: Counting on Statistical Software; title: Chapter 5: Conducting Clinical Research; title: Chapter 6: Looking at Clinical Trials and Drug Development.; title: Part II: Getting Down and Dirty with Data. Chapter 7: Getting Your Data into the Computer; title: Chapter 8: Summarizing and Graphing Your Data; title: Chapter 9: Aiming for Accuracy and Precision; title: Chapter 10: Having Confidence in Your Results; title: Chapter 11: Fuzzy In Equals Fuzzy Out: Pushing Imprecision through a Formula.; title: Part III: Comparing Groups. Chapter 12: Comparing Average Values between Groups; title: Chapter 13: Comparing Porportions and Analyzing Cross-Tabulations; title: Chapter 14: Taking a Closer Look at Fourfold Tables; title: Chapter 15: Analyzing Incidence and Prevalence Rates in Epidemiologic Data; title: Chapter 16: Feeling Noninferior (Or Equivalent).; title: Part IV: Looking for Relationships with Correlation and Regression. Chapter 17: Introducing Correlation and Regression; title: Chapter 18: Getting Straight Talk on Straight-Line Regression; title: Chapter 19: More of a Good Thing: Multiple Regression; title: Chapter 20: A Yes-or-No Proposition: Logistic Regression; title: Chapter 21: Other Useful Kinds of Regression.; title: Part V: Analyzing Survival Data. Chapter 22: Summarizing and Graphing Survival Data; title: Chapter 23: Comparing Survival Times; title: Chapter 24: Survival Regression.; title: Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 25: Ten Distributions Worth Knowing; title: Chapter 26: Ten Easy Ways to Estimate How Many Subjects You Need; title: Index.