Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health care professionals / David Bowers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowers, David, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical statistics.

Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.

Medicine.

Biometry.

Statistics as Topic--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Biometry.

Statistics as Topic--methods.

Physical Description:

xiv, 386 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bowers, David, 1938- author. Medical statistics from scratch

ISBN:

9781118519387

1118519388

OCLC:

880685409