A guide for the statistically perplexed
Subtitle: selected readings for clinical researchers
By: David L. Streiner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781442613539
Subjects: Medical statistics; Medicine; Research; Statistical methods; Statistics & numerical data; Statistics as Topic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory statistics.  Do you see what I mean? : indices of central tendency; title: Maintaining standards : differences between the standard deviation and standard error and when to use each; title: Breaking up is hard to do : the heartbreak of dichotomizing continuous data; title: Pick a number : sample size and power in psychiatric research; title: Speaking graphically : an introduction to some new graphing techniques; title: Let me count the ways : measuring incidence, prevalence, and impact in epidemiological studies; title: Risky business : making sense of estimates of risk; title: More advanced statistics.  The case of the missing data : methods of dealing with dropouts and other research vagaries; title: An introduction to multivariate statistics; title: Figuring out factors : the use and misuse of factor analysis; title: Regression in the service of the superego : the dos and don'ts of stepwise multiple regression - Regression towards the mean : its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment; title: Stayin' alive : an introduction to survival analysis; title: Life and chi-squared : an introduction to log-linear analysis; title: Confronting the confounders : the meaning, detection, and handling of confounders in research; title: Finding our way : an introduction to path analysis; title: Building a better model : an introduction to structural equation modelling; title: Unicorns to exist : a tutorial on "proving" the null hypothesis; title: Research methods.  Reconcilable differences : the marriage of qualitative and quantitative methods; title: Thinking small : research designs appropriate for clinical practice; title: The two "E's" of research : efficacy and effectiveness trials; title: Measurement.  A checklist for evaluating the usefulness of rating scales; title: Learning how to differ : agreement and reliability statistics; title: What's under the ROC? : an introduction to receiver operating characteristics curves; title: Measure for measure : new developments in measurement and item response theory - Miscellaneous.  Putting it all together : using meta-analysis in psychiatric research; title: "While you're up, get me a grant" : a guide to grant application writing; title: A short cut to rejection : how not to write the results section of a paper.