Long before I had any inkling that I would write a book, I learned that apreface is the author's attempt to engage the reader in a leisurely conversation before serious joint work begins. In that spirit, I ask you to spend a moment with me now. Although an important focus of my training and dai...

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Main Author:	Moyé, Lemuel A. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Springer New York 2000
Subjects:	General Practice / Family Medicine Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences Family medicine Statistics p-Wert Medizinische Statistik
Online Access:	UBR01 Volltext
Summary:	Long before I had any inkling that I would write a book, I learned that apreface is the author's attempt to engage the reader in a leisurely conversation before serious joint work begins. In that spirit, I ask you to spend a moment with me now. Although an important focus of my training and daily work is in mathematics and statistics, I have found that many health care workers in general, and physicians in particular, have difficulty understanding research issues when they are presented mathe­ matically. Statistical principles in medicine are relatively straight­ forward and can be' easily absorbed without a heavy mathematical preamble. I have come to believe that the underlying research principles are not difficult; what is difficult is the mathematics in which the principles are embedded. The mathematical medium often distorts and confuses the research message for nonmathe­ maticians. I wrote this book to explain the statistical principles in health care in fairly nonmathematical terms
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 281 p. 3 illus)
ISBN:	9781475732924
DOI:	10.1007/978-1-4757-3292-4