Medical statistics from scratch: an introduction for health professionals/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; Hoboken, New Jersey:
John Wiley,
2008, c2007
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0826/2007041619-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- 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.