Understanding Biostatistics (Statistics in Practice)

✍ Scribed by Anders Kallen

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding Biostatistics looks at the fundamentals of biostatistics, using elementary statistics and explores the nature of statistical tests, the tests that produces the p-values and basic aspects of clinical trials.The concept of distribution functions are discussed, including the Guassian distribution and its importance in biostatistics. The book also looks at problems of estimating parameters in statistical models and looks at the similarities between different models. The author does not set out to provide the definitive text on biostatistics, but rather to provide a guide to the concepts involved and their application in everyday work.

✦ Table of Contents

500x500_867727_file......Page 1
fmatter......Page 2
ch1......Page 14
ch2......Page 42
ch3......Page 69
ch4......Page 96
ch5......Page 130
ch6......Page 160
ch7......Page 188
ch8......Page 219
ch9......Page 255
ch10......Page 282
ch11......Page 298
ch12......Page 325
ch13......Page 351
index......Page 378
scard......Page 383