Medical statistics from scratch
Subtitle: an introduction for health professionals
By: David Bowers.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470513019
Subjects: Medical statistics.; Medicine -- Research -- Statistical methods.; Biometry.; Statistics -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Some fundamental stuff; value: First things first : the nature of data; value: Describing data with tables; value: Describing data with charts; value: Describing data from its distributional shape; value: Describing data with numeric summary values; value: Doing it right first time : designing a study; value: From samples to populations : making inferences; value: Chance would be a fine thing - probability, risk and odds; value: Estimating the value of a single population parameter; value: Estimating the differences between two population parameters; value: Estimating the ratio of two population parameters; value: Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters; value: Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters; value: Testing hypotheses about the equality of two or more proportions; value: Measuring the association between two variables; value: Measuring the agreement between two variables; value: Straight-line models - linear regression; value: Curvy models - logistic regression; value: Measuring survival; value: Systematic review and meta-analysis.