A guide for the statistically perplexed : selected readings for clinical researchers / David L. Streiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Streiner, David L.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

William Pepper Medical Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical statistics.

Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.

Medicine.

Statistics as Topic.

Medical Subjects:

Statistics as Topic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 383 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Introductory Statistics

1 Do You See What I Mean? Indices of Central Tendency 3

2 Maintaining Standards: Differences between the Standard Deviation and Standard Error and When to Use Each 11

3 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data 20

4 Pick a Number: Sample Size and Power in Psychiatric Research 29

5 Speaking Graphically: An Introduction to Some Newer Graphing Techniques 41

6 Let Me Count the Ways: Measuring Incidence, Prevalence, and Impact in Epidemiological Studies 56

7 Risky Business: Making Sense of Estimates of Risk 72

Part 2 More Advanced Statistics

8 The Case of the Missing Data: Methods of Dealing with Dropouts and Other Research Vagaries 83

9 An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics 98

10 Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis 110

11 Regression in the Service of the Superego: The Dos and Don'ts of Stepwise Multiple Regression 123

12 Regression towards the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment 137

13 Stayin' Alive: An Introduction to Survival Analysis 148

14 Life after Chi-squared: An Introduction to Log-Linear Analysis 161

15 Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Handling of Confounders in Research 172

16 Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis 182

17 Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling 198

18 Unicorns Do Exist A Tutorial on "Proving" the Null Hypothesis 211

Part 3 Research Methods

19 Reconcilable Differences: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods 225

20 Thinking Small: Research Designs Appropriate for Clinical Practice 242

21 The Two "E's" of Research: Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials 254

Part 4 Measurement

22 A Checklist for Evaluating the Usefulness of Rating Scales 267

23 Learning How to Differ: Agreement and Reliability Statistics 289

24 What's under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves 304

25 Measure for Measure: New Developments in Measurement and Item Response Theory 318

Part 5 Miscellaneous

26 Putting It All Together: Using Meta-Analysis in Psychiatric Research 333

27 "While you're up, get me a grant": A Guide to Grant Application Writing 349

28 A Short Cut to Rejection: How Not to Write the Results Section of a Paper 364.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William Pepper Medical Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781442662827

1442662824

Publisher Number:

99958157961

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.