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Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health care professionals / David Bowers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, David, 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biometry.
- Statistics as Topic--methods.
- Medical statistics.
- Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.
- Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biometry.
- Statistics as Topic--methods.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 1, 2014)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the President Emeritus Martin Meyerson Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bowers, David, 1938- author. Medical statistics from scratch
- ISBN:
- 9781118519417
- 1118519418
- Publisher Number:
- 99960826767
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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