The encyclopaedic companion to medical statistics / edited by Brian S. Everitt and Christopher R. Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Everitt, Brian.

Palmer, Christopher Ralph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical statistics--Encyclopedias.

Medical statistics.

Statistics as Topic--methods.

Models, Theoretical.

Medical Subjects:

Statistics as Topic--methods.

Models, Theoretical.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

xv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed by Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

In recent years the central importance of appropriate statistical methodology has been increasingly recognised in research studies in medicine and also in day-to-day clinical practice.

Medical literature is now liberally punctuated not only with relatively routine statistical terms such as 'p-value', 't-test' and 'confidence interval', but also with more esoteric items such as 'hazard function', 'multilevel model' and 'generalised estimating equations'. Consequently, researchers in medicine and clinicians who are not primarily statisticians need to have a source that provides readable accounts of these terms so that they can better understand statistical aspects of both the design and analysis of a reported investigation.

The Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics aims to be that source, containing readable accounts of almost 400 statistical topics central to current medical research. Each entry has been written by an individual chosen for both their expertise in the field and their ability to communicate statistical concepts successfully to medical researchers. Real examples from the biomedical literature and relevant illustrations feature in many entries, and extensive cross-referencing signposts the reader to related entries.

Contents:

The Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0340809981

OCLC:

56650195

Publisher Number:

9780340809983