Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health care professionals / / David Bowers
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| Autore: |
Bowers David <1938->
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| Titolo: |
Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health care professionals / / David Bowers
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | Third edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 610.72/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biometry |
| Medical statistics | |
| Medicine - Research - Statistical methods | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | First things first? : the nature of data -- Describing data with tables -- Describing data with charts -- Describing data from its shape -- Describing data with measures of location -- Describing data with measures of spread -- Confounding? : like poor(nearly) always with us -- Research design part I observational -- Research design part II experimental studies -- Getting the participants for your study. ways of sampling -- Chance would be a fine thing? : the idea of probability -- Risk and odds -- Estimating the value of a single population parameter? : the idea of confidence intervals -- Using confidence intervals to compare two population parameters -- Confidence intervals for the ratio of two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters -- The chi-squared test? : what, why, and how? -- Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters -- Measuring the association between two variables -- Measuring agreement -- Straight line models : linear regression -- Curvy models : logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review and meta-analysis -- Diagnostic testing. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Correctly understanding and using medical statistics is a key skill for all medical students and health professionals.In an informal and friendly style, Medical Statistics from Scratch provides a practical foundation for everyone whose first interest is probably not medical statistics. Keeping the level of mathematics to a minimum, it clearly illustrates statistical concepts and practice with numerous real world examples and cases drawn from current medical literature.This fully revised and updated third edition includes new material on: missing data, random allocation and concealment of dat |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Medical statistics from scratch |
| ISBN: | 1-118-51939-6 |
| 1-118-51941-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819730703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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