Medical statistics from scratch
Subtitle: an introduction for health care professionals
By: David Bowers
Edition: Third edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781118519387
Subjects: Medicine; Statistical methods; Medical statistics; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: First things first? : the nature of data; title: Describing data with tables; title: Describing data with charts; title: Describing data from its shape; title: Describing data with measures of location; title: Describing data with measures of spread; title: Confounding? : like poor(nearly) always with us; title: Research design part I observational; title: Research design part II experimental studies; title: Getting the participants for your study. ways of sampling; title: Chance would be a fine thing? : the idea of probability; title: Risk and odds; title: Estimating the value of a single population parameter? : the idea of confidence intervals; title: Using confidence intervals to compare two population parameters; title: Confidence intervals for the ratio of two population parameters; title: Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters; title: The chi-squared test? : what, why, and how?; title: Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters; title: Measuring the association between two variables; title: Measuring agreement; title: Straight line models : linear regression; title: Curvy models : logistic regression; title: Measuring survival; title: Systematic review and meta-analysis; title: Diagnostic testing.