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Statistics with confidence : confidence intervals and statistical guidelines
| Statistics with confidence : confidence intervals and statistical guidelines |
| Edizione | [2nd ed. /] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Great Britain], : BMJ Books, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 610.727 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AltmanDouglas G
GardnerM. J <1940-> (Martin John) |
| Soggetto topico |
Confidence intervals
Medical statistics |
| ISBN |
1-118-70250-6
1-118-70251-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Contributors; Source of contents; Introduction; PART I ESTIMATION AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; 1 Estimating with confidence; 2 Confidence intervals in practice; 3 Confidence intervals rather than P values; 4 Means and their differences; 5 Medians and their differences; 6 Proportions and their differences; 7 Epidemiological studies; 8 Regression and correlation; 9 Time to event studies; 10 Diagnostic tests; 11 Clinical trials and meta-analyses; 12 Confidence intervals and sample sizes; 13 Special topics; PART II STATISTICAL GUIDELINES AND CHECKLISTS
14 Statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals 15 Statistical checklists; PART III NOTATION, SOFTWARE, AND TABLES; 16 Notation; 17 Computer software for calculating confidence intervals (CIA); 18 Tables for the calculation of confidence intervals; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809113503321 |
| [Great Britain], : BMJ Books, 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Systematic reviews in health care [[electronic resource]] : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman
| Systematic reviews in health care [[electronic resource]] : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : BMJ, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610.72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AltmanDouglas G
EggerMatthias Davey SmithGeorge |
| Soggetto topico |
Evidence-based medicine
Systematic reviews (Medical research) |
| ISBN |
9786610285044
1-280-28504-4 0-585-39915-8 0-470-69314-2 1-118-70004-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Rationale, potentials, and promise of systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Systematic review, overview or meta-analysis?""; ""The scope of meta-analysis""; ""Historical notes""; ""Why do we need systematic reviews? A patient with myocardial infarction in 1981""; ""Narrative reviews""; ""Limitations of a single study""; ""A more transparent appraisal""; ""The epidemiology of results""; ""What was the evidence in 1981? Cumulative metaanalysis""; ""Conclusions""
""Acknowledgements""""Part I: Systematic reviews of controlled trials""; ""2 Principles of and procedures for systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Developing a review protocol""; ""Objectives and eligibility criteria""; ""Literature search""; ""Selection of studies, assessment of methodological quality and data extraction""; ""Presenting, combining and interpreting results""; ""Standardised outcome measure""; ""Graphical display""; ""Heterogeneity between study results""; ""Methods for estimating a combined effect estimate""; ""Bayesian meta-analysis""; ""Sensitivity analysis"" ""Relative or absolute measures of effect?""""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""3 Problems and limitations in conducting systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Garbage in - garbage out?""; ""The dissemination of research findings""; ""Publication bias""; ""Who is responsible for publication bias: authors, reviewers or editors?""; ""The influence of external funding and commercial interests""; ""Other reporting biases""; ""Duplicate (multiple) publication bias""; ""Citation bias""; ""Language bias""; ""Outcome reporting bias""; ""The future of unbiased, systematic reviewing"" ""Acknowledgements""""4 Identifying randomised trials""; ""Summary points""; ""Project to identify and re-tag reports of controlled trials in MEDLINE""; ""Project to identify reports of controlled trials in EMBASE""; ""Other databases already searched for reports of controlled trials""; ""Identifying reports of controlled trials by handsearching""; ""Recommended supplementary searches of databases already searched or in progress""; ""Searches of additional databases not currently being searched for The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register"" ""Supplementary searches of journals and conference proceedings""""Identifying ongoing and/or unpublished studies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Disclaimer""; ""5 Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials""; ""Summary points""; ""A framework for methodological quality""; ""Dimensions of internal validity""; ""Empirical evidence of bias""; ""Dimensions of external validity""; ""Quality of reporting""; ""Assessing trial quality: composite scales""; ""A critique of two widely used quality scales""; ""Potential of quality scales"" ""Assessing trial quality: the component approach"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910208847103321 |
| London, : BMJ, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Systematic reviews in health care [[electronic resource]] : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman
| Systematic reviews in health care [[electronic resource]] : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : BMJ, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610.72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AltmanDouglas G
EggerMatthias Davey SmithGeorge |
| Soggetto topico |
Evidence-based medicine
Systematic reviews (Medical research) |
| ISBN |
9786610285044
1-280-28504-4 0-585-39915-8 0-470-69314-2 1-118-70004-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Rationale, potentials, and promise of systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Systematic review, overview or meta-analysis?""; ""The scope of meta-analysis""; ""Historical notes""; ""Why do we need systematic reviews? A patient with myocardial infarction in 1981""; ""Narrative reviews""; ""Limitations of a single study""; ""A more transparent appraisal""; ""The epidemiology of results""; ""What was the evidence in 1981? Cumulative metaanalysis""; ""Conclusions""
""Acknowledgements""""Part I: Systematic reviews of controlled trials""; ""2 Principles of and procedures for systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Developing a review protocol""; ""Objectives and eligibility criteria""; ""Literature search""; ""Selection of studies, assessment of methodological quality and data extraction""; ""Presenting, combining and interpreting results""; ""Standardised outcome measure""; ""Graphical display""; ""Heterogeneity between study results""; ""Methods for estimating a combined effect estimate""; ""Bayesian meta-analysis""; ""Sensitivity analysis"" ""Relative or absolute measures of effect?""""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""3 Problems and limitations in conducting systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Garbage in - garbage out?""; ""The dissemination of research findings""; ""Publication bias""; ""Who is responsible for publication bias: authors, reviewers or editors?""; ""The influence of external funding and commercial interests""; ""Other reporting biases""; ""Duplicate (multiple) publication bias""; ""Citation bias""; ""Language bias""; ""Outcome reporting bias""; ""The future of unbiased, systematic reviewing"" ""Acknowledgements""""4 Identifying randomised trials""; ""Summary points""; ""Project to identify and re-tag reports of controlled trials in MEDLINE""; ""Project to identify reports of controlled trials in EMBASE""; ""Other databases already searched for reports of controlled trials""; ""Identifying reports of controlled trials by handsearching""; ""Recommended supplementary searches of databases already searched or in progress""; ""Searches of additional databases not currently being searched for The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register"" ""Supplementary searches of journals and conference proceedings""""Identifying ongoing and/or unpublished studies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Disclaimer""; ""5 Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials""; ""Summary points""; ""A framework for methodological quality""; ""Dimensions of internal validity""; ""Empirical evidence of bias""; ""Dimensions of external validity""; ""Quality of reporting""; ""Assessing trial quality: composite scales""; ""A critique of two widely used quality scales""; ""Potential of quality scales"" ""Assessing trial quality: the component approach"" |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996226145403316 |
| London, : BMJ, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Systematic reviews in health care : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman
| Systematic reviews in health care : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : BMJ, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610.72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AltmanDouglas G
EggerMatthias Davey SmithGeorge |
| Soggetto topico |
Evidence-based medicine
Systematic reviews (Medical research) |
| ISBN |
9786610285044
1-280-28504-4 0-585-39915-8 0-470-69314-2 1-118-70004-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Rationale, potentials, and promise of systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Systematic review, overview or meta-analysis?""; ""The scope of meta-analysis""; ""Historical notes""; ""Why do we need systematic reviews? A patient with myocardial infarction in 1981""; ""Narrative reviews""; ""Limitations of a single study""; ""A more transparent appraisal""; ""The epidemiology of results""; ""What was the evidence in 1981? Cumulative metaanalysis""; ""Conclusions""
""Acknowledgements""""Part I: Systematic reviews of controlled trials""; ""2 Principles of and procedures for systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Developing a review protocol""; ""Objectives and eligibility criteria""; ""Literature search""; ""Selection of studies, assessment of methodological quality and data extraction""; ""Presenting, combining and interpreting results""; ""Standardised outcome measure""; ""Graphical display""; ""Heterogeneity between study results""; ""Methods for estimating a combined effect estimate""; ""Bayesian meta-analysis""; ""Sensitivity analysis"" ""Relative or absolute measures of effect?""""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""3 Problems and limitations in conducting systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Garbage in - garbage out?""; ""The dissemination of research findings""; ""Publication bias""; ""Who is responsible for publication bias: authors, reviewers or editors?""; ""The influence of external funding and commercial interests""; ""Other reporting biases""; ""Duplicate (multiple) publication bias""; ""Citation bias""; ""Language bias""; ""Outcome reporting bias""; ""The future of unbiased, systematic reviewing"" ""Acknowledgements""""4 Identifying randomised trials""; ""Summary points""; ""Project to identify and re-tag reports of controlled trials in MEDLINE""; ""Project to identify reports of controlled trials in EMBASE""; ""Other databases already searched for reports of controlled trials""; ""Identifying reports of controlled trials by handsearching""; ""Recommended supplementary searches of databases already searched or in progress""; ""Searches of additional databases not currently being searched for The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register"" ""Supplementary searches of journals and conference proceedings""""Identifying ongoing and/or unpublished studies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Disclaimer""; ""5 Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials""; ""Summary points""; ""A framework for methodological quality""; ""Dimensions of internal validity""; ""Empirical evidence of bias""; ""Dimensions of external validity""; ""Quality of reporting""; ""Assessing trial quality: composite scales""; ""A critique of two widely used quality scales""; ""Potential of quality scales"" ""Assessing trial quality: the component approach"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811997703321 |
| London, : BMJ, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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