A clinician's guide to statistics and epidemiology in mental health
Subtitle: measuring truth and uncertainty
By: S. Nassir Ghaemi.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521709583
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Statistical methods; Psychiatric epidemiology; Psychiatry -- methods; Statistics as Topic; Mental Disorders -- epidemiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why data never speak for themselves; title: Why you cannot believe your eyes : the three C's; title: Levels of evidence; title: Types of bias; title: Randomization; title: Regression; title: Hypothesis testing : the dreaded P-value and statistical significance; title: The use of hypothesis testing statistics in clinical trials; title: The alternative : effect estimation; title: What does causation mean?; title: A philosophy of statistics; title: Evidence-based medicine : defense and criticisms; title: The alchemy of meta-analysis; title: Bayesian statistics : why your opinion counts; title: How journal articles get published; title: How scientific research impacts practice; title: Dollars, data, and drugs; title: Bioethics and the clinician/researcher divide.