Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
About the Authors
Foreword
Ch 1 How to use this book
Ch 2 How this book is designed
Statistics which describe data
Ch 3 Percentages
Ch 4 Mean
Ch 5 Median
Ch 6 Mode
Ch 7 Standard deviation
Statistics which test confidence
Ch 8 Confidence intervals
Ch 9 P values
Statistics which test differences
Ch 10 t tests and other parametric tests
Ch 11 Mann-Whitney and other non-parametric tests
Ch 12 Chi-squared test
Statistics which compare risk
Ch 13 Risk ratio
Ch 14 Odds ratio
Ch 15 Risk reduction and numbers needed to treat
Statistics which analyze relationships
Ch 16 Correlation
Ch 17 Regression
Statistics which analyze survival
Ch 18 Survival analysis: life tables and Kaplan-Meier plots
Ch 19 The Cox regression model
Statistics which analyze clinical investigations and screening
Ch 20 Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value
Ch 21 Level of agreement
Other concepts
Ch 22 Other concepts
Statistics at work
Ch 23 Introduction
Ch 24 Medians, interquartile ranges and odds ratios
Ch 25 Risk ratios and number needed to treat
Ch 26 Correlation and regression
Ch 27 Survival analysis
Ch 28 Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values
Glossary
Index