Medical Biostatistics, Second Edition

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• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 822
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"" & he 2nd edition contains a number of new, expanded or revised topics, including full chapters on clinical trials, observational studies, survival analysis and logistic regression. & he explanations given are clear and well written. The concepts are well illustrated with real examples. & his is a comprehensive and thoughtful introductory book on biostatistics. & "--Andrew Hayen, University of Sydney, Australia, Statistics in Medicine, 2010, 29""The book contains a fairly comprehensive introduction of basic statistical concepts and methods used in medical and health sciences. The basic idea is.  Read more...

Abstract: "" & he 2nd edition contains a number of new, expanded or revised topics, including full chapters on clinical trials, observational studies, survival analysis and logistic regression. & he explanations given are clear and well written. The concepts are well illustrated with real examples. & his is a comprehensive and thoughtful introductory book on biostatistics. & "--Andrew Hayen, University of Sydney, Australia, Statistics in Medicine, 2010, 29""The book contains a fairly comprehensive introduction of basic statistical concepts and methods used in medical and health sciences. The basic idea is

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Summary Tables
Frequently Used Notations
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Medical Uncertainties
Chapter 2. Basics of Medical Studies
Chapter 3. Sampling Methods
Chapter 4. Designs for Observational Studies
Chapter 5. Medical Experiements
Chapter 6. Clinical Trails
Chapter 7. Numerical Methods for Representing Variation
Chapter 8. Presentation of Variation by Figures
Chapter 9. Some Quantitative Aspects of Medicine
Chapter 10. Clinimetrics and Evidence-Based Medicine
Chapter 11. Measurement of Community Health Chapter 12. Confidence Intervals, Principles of Tests of Significance, and Sample SizeChapter 13. Inference fro Proportions
Chapter 14. Relative Risk and Odds Ratio
Chapter 15. Inference from Means
Chapter 16. Relationships: Quantitative Data
Chapter 17. Relationships: Qualitative Dependent
Chapter 18. Relationships: Qualitative Dependent
Chapter 19. Stimulatneous Consideration of Several Variables
Chapter 20. Quality Considerations
Chapter 21. Statistical Fallacies
Appendix 1: Statistical Software
Appendix 2. Some Statistical Tables
Index
Back cover