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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458277203321

Autore

Bowers David <1938->

Titolo

Medical statistics from scratch [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction for health professionals / / David Bowers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

ISBN

1-281-32182-6

9786611321826

0-470-72444-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

610.72/7

610.727

Soggetti

Medical statistics

Medicine - Research - Statistical methods

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Medical Statistics from Scratch; Contents; Preface to the 2nd Edition; Preface to the 1st Edition; Introduction; I Some Fundamental Stuff; 1 First things first - the nature of data; Learning Objectives; Variables and Data; The good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Types of Variable; Categorical Variables; Metric Variables; How can I Tell what Type of Variable I am Dealing with?; II Descriptive Statistics; 2 Describing Data with Tables; Learning Objectives; What is Descriptive Statistics?; The Frequency Table; 3 Describing Data with Charts; Learning Objectives; Picture it!

Charting Nominal and Ordinal DataCharting Discrete Metric Data; Charting Continuous Metric Data; Charting Cumulative Data; 4 Describing Data from its Shape; Learning Objectives; The Shape of Things to Come; 5 Describing Data with Numeric Summary Values; Learning Objectives; Numbers R us; Summary Measures of Location; Summary Measures of Spread; Standard Deviation and the Normal Distribution; III Getting the Data; 6 Doing it Right First Time - Designing a Study; Learning Objectives; Hey ho! Hey ho! It's Off to Work we Go; Collecting the Data - Types of Sample; Types of Study;



Confounding

MatchingComparing Cohort and Case-Control Designs; Getting Stuck in - Experimental Studies; IV From Little to Large - Statistical Inference; 7 From Samples to Populations - Making Inferences; Learning Objectives; Statistical Inference; 8 Probability, Risk and Odds; Learning Objectives; Chance would be a Fine Thing - The Idea of Probability; Calculating Probability; Probability and the Normal Distribution; Risk; Odds; Why you can't Calculate Risk in a Case-Control Study; The Link between Probability and Odds; The Risk Ratio; The Odds Ratio; Number Needed to Treat (NNT)

V The Informed Guess - Confidence Interval Estimation9 Estimating the Value of a Single Population Parameter - The Idea of Confidence Intervals; Learning Objectives; Confidence Interval Estimation for a Population Mean; Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion; Estimating a Confidence Interval for the Median of a Single Population; 10 Estimating the Difference between Two Population Parameters; Learning Objectives; What's the Difference?; Estimating the Difference between the Means of Two Independent Populations - Using a Method Based on the Two-Sample t Test

Estimating the Difference between Two Matched Population Means - Using a Method Based on the Matched-Pairs t TestEstimating the Difference between Two Independent Population Proportions; Estimating the Difference between Two Independent Population Medians - The Mann-Whitney Rank-Sums Method; Estimating the Difference between Two Matched Population Medians - Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Method; 11 Estimating the Ratio of Two Population Parameters; Learning Objectives; Estimating Ratios of Means, Risks and Odds; VI Putting it to the Test

12 Testing Hypotheses about the Difference between Two Population Parameters

Sommario/riassunto

This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression models for modeling of clinical outcomes. The level of mathematics is kept to a minimum to make the material easily accessible to the novice, and a multitude of illustrative cases are included in every chapter, drawn from the current research lit



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790402103321

Autore

Greteman Blaine

Titolo

The poetics and politics of youth in Milton's England / / Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89180-4

1-107-42464-X

1-107-42263-9

1-107-42070-9

1-139-81189-4

1-107-41691-4

1-107-41954-9

1-107-41822-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/354

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Children in literature

Youth in literature

Children and politics - History - 17th century

Literature and society - England - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Childish things -- Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England -- Children, literature, and the problem of consent -- Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection -- 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work -- 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy -- 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost -- Children of paradise -- Epilogue: 'Children gathering pebbles on the shore'.

Sommario/riassunto

As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a



voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century.