Converting data into evidence : a statistics primer for the medical practitioner / / Alfred DeMaris, Steven H. Selman
| Converting data into evidence : a statistics primer for the medical practitioner / / Alfred DeMaris, Steven H. Selman |
| Autore | DeMaris Alfred <1946-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Springer, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610.727 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DeMarisAlfred <1946-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Medical statistics
Health surveys - Statistical methods |
| ISBN | 1-4614-7792-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Statistics and Causality; What Is Statistics?; What Statistics Is; An Example; Populations and Samples; Probability vs. Nonprobability Samples; Sampling "to" a Population; Statistics and Causal Inference; A Mathematical Definition of "Causal Effect"; How Do We Estimate the ACE?; Example of Latent Self-Selection; Internal vs. External Validity: A Conundrum; Chapter 2: Summarizing Data; Descriptive Statistical Techniques; Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data; Describing Data; Measuring Center and Spread of a Variable's Distribution; The Mean
Percentiles and the MedianDispersion; Data from the General Social Survey; Describing the Population Distribution; The Normal and t Distributions; Applications: Descriptive Statistics in Action; Tarenflurbil Study; Hydroxychloroquine Study; RALP Study; Brachytherapy Study; Chapter 3: Testing a Hypothesis; The Test of Hypothesis; Let's Roll the Dice; Testing Whether Al's Die Is Loaded; Statement of Hypotheses; Testing the Null Hypothesis; Making a Decision; "Statistically Significant" Results; What About Your Sequence of Die Rolls?; Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis About a Mean Assumptions for the TestStatement of Hypotheses; Before Going Further: The Sampling Distribution of a Sample Statistic; Simple Example of a Sampling Distribution; A More Elaborate Example; Sampling Distribution of the Mean for the Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis; The Central Limit Theorem; Test Statistic and P -Value; Summary; Chapter 4: Additional Inferential Procedures; Confidence Intervals and the T Test; Confidence Intervals; Testing the Difference Between Two Means: The T Test; Statement of Hypotheses; Sample Information and the Sampling Distribution; Assumptions for the T Test Computation of the Test StatisticFinding the P Value; One-Tailed vs. Two-Tailed Tests; Summary: Hypothesis Testing; Decision Errors and the Power of the Test; Power of the T Test in the Diet Example; T Tests for the GSS Data; Comments About Statistical Tests; P Values, Revisited; Sampling from "The Population"; Application: T Tests and Statistical Power in Action; Gender Difference in Physician Salaries; Power Considerations in Hydroxychloroquine Study; Power in the Arterial Inflammation Study; Chapter 5: Bivariate Statistical Techniques; A Nonparametric Test for the Steak-Diet Example Computing the WRSTBivariate Statistics; Bivariate Analysis: Other Scenarios; Qualitative Treatment with More Than Two Levels: ANOVA; Qualitative Treatment and Qualitative Response: χ 2; Calculating the χ 2 Value; Minimum and Maximum Values of χ 2; Measuring the Strength of Association; Quantitative Treatment and Response: The Correlation Coefficient; Testing the Significance of R; The Paired t Test: How Correlation Affects the Standard Error; Summary of Bivariate Statistics; Application: Bivariate Statistics in Action; ANOVA: GGT and Alcohol Consumption χ 2 : Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio Study |
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Regression with social data [[electronic resource] ] : modeling continuous and limited response variables / / Alfred DeMaris
| Regression with social data [[electronic resource] ] : modeling continuous and limited response variables / / Alfred DeMaris |
| Autore | DeMaris Alfred <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (562 p.) |
| Disciplina |
519.5
519.5/36 519.536 |
| Collana | Wiley series in probability and statistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Regression analysis
Social sciences - Statistics - Methodology Statistics - Methodology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-25215-4
9786610252152 0-470-24703-7 0-471-67755-8 0-471-67756-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Regression with Social Data; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction to Regression Modeling; 2. Simple Linear Regression; 3. Introduction to Multiple Regression; 4. Multiple Regression with Categorical Predictors: ANOVA and ANCOVA Models; 5. Modeling Nonlinearity; 6. Advanced Issues in Multiple Regression; 7. Regression with a Binary Response; 8. Advanced Topics in Logistic Regression; 9. Truncated and Censored Regression Models; 10. Regression Models for an Event Count; 11. Introduction to Survival Analysis; 12. Multistate, Multiepisode, and Interval-Censored Models in Survival Analysis
Appendix A. Mathematics TutorialsAppendix B. Answers to Selected Exercises; References; Index |
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DeMaris Alfred <1946->
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Regression with social data [[electronic resource] ] : modeling continuous and limited response variables / / Alfred DeMaris
| Regression with social data [[electronic resource] ] : modeling continuous and limited response variables / / Alfred DeMaris |
| Autore | DeMaris Alfred <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (562 p.) |
| Disciplina |
519.5
519.5/36 519.536 |
| Collana | Wiley series in probability and statistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Regression analysis
Social sciences - Statistics - Methodology Statistics - Methodology |
| ISBN |
1-280-25215-4
9786610252152 0-470-24703-7 0-471-67755-8 0-471-67756-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Regression with Social Data; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction to Regression Modeling; 2. Simple Linear Regression; 3. Introduction to Multiple Regression; 4. Multiple Regression with Categorical Predictors: ANOVA and ANCOVA Models; 5. Modeling Nonlinearity; 6. Advanced Issues in Multiple Regression; 7. Regression with a Binary Response; 8. Advanced Topics in Logistic Regression; 9. Truncated and Censored Regression Models; 10. Regression Models for an Event Count; 11. Introduction to Survival Analysis; 12. Multistate, Multiepisode, and Interval-Censored Models in Survival Analysis
Appendix A. Mathematics TutorialsAppendix B. Answers to Selected Exercises; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830582603321 |
DeMaris Alfred <1946->
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Regression with social data : modeling continuous and limited response variables / / Alfred DeMaris
| Regression with social data : modeling continuous and limited response variables / / Alfred DeMaris |
| Autore | DeMaris Alfred <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (562 p.) |
| Disciplina | 519.5/36 |
| Collana | Wiley series in probability and statistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Regression analysis
Social sciences - Statistics - Methodology Statistics - Methodology |
| ISBN |
9786610252152
9781280252150 1280252154 9780470247037 0470247037 9780471677550 0471677558 9780471677567 0471677566 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Regression with Social Data; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction to Regression Modeling; 2. Simple Linear Regression; 3. Introduction to Multiple Regression; 4. Multiple Regression with Categorical Predictors: ANOVA and ANCOVA Models; 5. Modeling Nonlinearity; 6. Advanced Issues in Multiple Regression; 7. Regression with a Binary Response; 8. Advanced Topics in Logistic Regression; 9. Truncated and Censored Regression Models; 10. Regression Models for an Event Count; 11. Introduction to Survival Analysis; 12. Multistate, Multiepisode, and Interval-Censored Models in Survival Analysis
Appendix A. Mathematics TutorialsAppendix B. Answers to Selected Exercises; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911019735903321 |
DeMaris Alfred <1946->
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Interscience, c2004 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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