Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface to fourth edition
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What are statistics?
Chapter 2: Populations and samples
Chapter 3: Random sampling
Chapter 4: Presenting data
Chapter 5: Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates
Chapter 6: Types of data
Chapter 7: Mean, median and mode
Chapter 8: Centiles
Chapter 9: Standard deviation
Chapter 10: Standard error
Chapter 11: Normal distribution
Chapter 12: Confidence intervals
Chapter 13: Probability
Chapter 14: Hypothesis tests and P-values
Chapter 15: The t-tests
Chapter 16: Data checking Chapter 17: Parametric and non-parametric testsChapter 18: Correlation and linear regression
Chapter 19: Analysis of variance and some other types of regression
Chapter 20: Chi-squared test
Chapter 21: Statistical power and sample size
Chapter 22: Effect size
Chapter 23: What is epidemiology?
Chapter 24: Bias and confounding
Chapter 25: Measuring disease frequency
Chapter 26: Measuring association in epidemiology
Chapter 27: Prevalence studies
Chapter 28: Questionnaires
Chapter 29: Cohort studies
Chapter 30: Case-control studies
Chapter 31: Randomised controlled trials Chapter 32: ScreeningChapter 33: Evidence-based healthcare
Glossary of terms
Appendix 1: Statistical tables
Appendix 2: Exercises
Appendix 3: Answers to exercises
References
Further reading: a selection
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