Medical statistics : a guide to data analysis and critical appraisal / by Jennifer Peat, Belinda Barton ; foreword by Martin Bland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peat, Jennifer K.

Contributor:

Barton, Belinda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical statistics.

Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Holistic approach to understanding medical statistics This hands-on guide is much more than a basic medical statistics introduction. It equips you with the statistical tools required for evidence-based clinical research. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate and interpret the numbers, and present the results as scientific tables or graphs. Showing you how to:analyse data with the help of data set examples (Click here to download datasets) s

Contents:

Data management: preparing to analyse the data

Continuous variables: descriptive statistics

Continuous variables: comparing two independent samples

Continuous variables: paired and one-sample t-tests

Continuous variables: analysis of variance

Continuous data analyses: correlation and regression

Categorical variables: rates and proportions

Categorical variables: risk statistics

Categorical and continuous variables: tests of agreement

Categorical and continuous variables: diagnostic statistics

Categorical and continuous variables: survival analyses.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611320539

9781281320537

1281320536

9780470755204

0470755202

OCLC:

437218548