Basic & Clinical Biostatistics

✍ Scribed by Susan White

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 5th Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields
A Doody's Core Title for 2020!

Basic & Clinical Biostatistics provides medical students, researchers, and practitioners with the knowledge needed to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care. This fifth edition has been updated throughout to deliver a comprehensive, timely introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology as applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research. Particular emphasis is on study design and interpretation of results of research.

The book features “Presenting Problems” drawn from studies published in the medical literature, end-of-chapter exercises, and a reorganization of content to reflect the way investigators ask research questions. To facilitate learning, each chapter contain a set of key concepts underscoring the important ideas discussed.

Features:

• Key components include a chapter on survey research and expanded discussion
of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
• Extensive examples illustrate statistical methods and design issues
• Updated examples using R, an open source statistical software package
• Expanded coverage of data visualization, including content on visual perception
and discussion of tools such as Tableau, Qlik and MS Power BI
• Sampling and power calculations imbedded with discussion of the statistical model
• Updated content, examples, and data sets throughout

✦ Table of Contents

Basic and Clinical Biostatistics 5th Edition......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Copyrigh......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Using R......Page 9
Chapter 1 Introduction to Medical Research......Page 11
Chapter 2 Study Designs in Medical Research......Page 16
Chapter 3 Summarizing Data & Presenting Data in Tables & Graphs......Page 30
Chapter 4 Probability & Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data......Page 66
Chapter 5 Research Questions About One Group......Page 96
Chapter 6 Research Questions About Two Separate or Independent Groups......Page 127
Chapter 7 Research Questions About Means in Three or More Groups......Page 151
Chapter 8 Research Questions About Relationships Among Variables......Page 176
Chapter 9 Analyzing Research Questions About Survival......Page 200
Chapter 10 Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables......Page 216
Chapter 11 Survey Research......Page 244
Chapter 12 Methods of Evidence-Based Medicine and Decision Analysis......Page 260
Chapter 13 Reading the Medical Literature......Page 286
Appendix A: Tables......Page 311
Appendix B: Answers to Exercises......Page 320
Appendix C: Flowcharts for Relating Research Questions to Statistical Methods......Page 337
Glossary......Page 342
References......Page 354
Index......Page 361

✦ Subjects

Clinical Biostatistics; epidemiology