Medical Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals

INDICE: Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction PART I SOME FUNDAMENTAL STUFF Chapter 1. First things first – the nature of data PART II DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Chapter 2. Describing data with tables Chapter 3. Describing data with charts Chapter 4. Describing data from its shape Chapter 5. Describing data with measures of location Chapter 6. Describing data with measures of spread PART III GETTING THE DATA Chapter 7. Confounding – like poor(nearly) always with us Chapter 8. Research Design Part I Observational. Chapter 9. Research Design Part II Experimental studies Chapter 10. Getting the participants for your study.  Ways of sampling Chapter 11. Chance would be a fine thing – the idea of probability Chapter 12. Risk and odds Part V THE INFORMED GUESS – AN INTRODUCTION TO CONFIDENCE INTERVALS Chapter 13. Estimating the value of a single population parameter – the idea of confidence intervals Chapter 14. Using confidence intervals to compare two population parameters Chapter 15. Confidence intervals for the ratio of two population parameters Part VI PUTTING IT TO TEST Chapter 16. Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters Chapter 17. The chi–squared  (χ 2 ) test – what, why, and how? Chapter 18. Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters Part VII BECOMING ACQUAINTED Chapter 19. Measuring the association between two variables Chapter 20. Measuring agreement VIII GETTING INTO A RELATIONSHIP Chapter 21. Straight line models: linear regression Chapter 22. Curvy models: logistic regression IX FOUR MORE CHAPTERS Chapter 23. Measuring survival Chapter 24. Systematic review and meta–analysis Chapter 25. Diagnostic testing Appendix: Random Number Table References Solutions to Exercises Index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-51938-7
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 408
• Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2014
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• Idioma: Inglés