Medical statistics from scratch: an introduction for health professionals
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1. Verfasser: Bowers, David (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chichester, England John Wiley & Sons ©2008
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index
Some fundamental stuff -- First things first : the nature of data -- Describing data with tables -- Describing data with charts -- Describing data from its distributional shape -- Describing data with numeric summary values -- Doing it right first time : designing a study -- From samples to populations : making inferences -- Chance would be a fine thing -- probability, risk and odds -- Estimating the value of a single population parameter -- Estimating the differences between two population parameters -- Estimating the ratio of two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the equality of two or more proportions -- Measuring the association between two variables -- Measuring the agreement between two variables -- Straight-line models -- linear regression -- Curvy models -- logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review and meta-analysis
This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression models for modeling of clinical outcomes. The level of mathematics is kept to a minimum to make the material easily accessible to the novice, and a multitude of illustrative cases are included in every chapter, drawn from the current research liter
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ISBN:0470724447
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