Essential Statistics for Medical Practice: A case-study approach

✍ Scribed by D. G. Rees (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 222
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Preliminary trial of the effect of general practice based nutritional advice....Pages 3-21
Randomized controlled trial of anti-smoking advice by nurses in general practice....Pages 23-36
Psychological distress: outcome and consultation rates in one general practice....Pages 37-51
Use of regression analysis to explain the variation in prescribing rates and costs between family practitioner committees....Pages 53-69
Hidden psychiatric illness: use of the general health questionnaire in general practice....Pages 71-84
A randomized controlled trial of surgery for glue ear....Pages 85-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Data, tables, graphs, summary statistics and probability....Pages 111-125
Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for means....Pages 127-141
More on comparing means, the analysis of variance and the F-test....Pages 143-149
Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for percentages....Pages 151-161
Further tests for percentages....Pages 163-166
Regression and correlation....Pages 167-181
Sensitivity and specificity....Pages 183-185
Study design....Pages 187-194
Calculators and computers....Pages 195-205
Back Matter....Pages 207-223

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