Medical statistics [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to data analysis and critical appraisal / / by Jennifer Peat, Belinda Barton ; foreword by Martin Bland

• Autore: Peat Jennifer K
• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.72/7
• Soggetto topico: Medical statistics; Medicine - Research - Statistical methods
• Altri autori: BartonBelinda
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Data management: preparing to analyse the data -- Continuous variables: descriptive statistics -- Continuous variables: comparing two independent samples -- Continuous variables: paired and one-sample t-tests -- Continuous variables: analysis of variance -- Continuous data analyses: correlation and regression -- Categorical variables: rates and proportions -- Categorical variables: risk statistics -- Categorical and continuous variables: tests of agreement -- Categorical and continuous variables: diagnostic statistics -- Categorical and continuous variables: survival analyses.
• Sommario/riassunto: Holistic approach to understanding medical statistics This hands-on guide is much more than a basic medical statistics introduction. It equips you with the statistical tools required for evidence-based clinical research. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate and interpret the numbers, and present the results as scientific tables or graphs. Showing you how to:analyse data with the help of data set examples (Click here to download datasets) s
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical statistics
• ISBN: 1-281-32053-6; 9786611320539; 0-470-75520-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822256803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II