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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bowers, David, 1938- author.
Contributor:
ebrary, Inc.
President Emeritus Martin Meyerson Fund.
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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