Medical statistics : a guide to SPSS, data analysis, and critical appraisal / Belinda Barton, Jennifer Peat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, Belinda, author.

Peat, Jennifer K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics--Methods.

Statistics.

Research--Design.

Research.

Medical statistics.

Physical Description:

411 pages

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell : BMJ Books, 2014.

Summary:

Medical Statistics provides the necessary statistical tools to enable researchers to undertake and understand evidence-based clinical research. It is a practical guide to conducting statistical research and interpreting statistics in the context of how the participants were recruited, how the study was designed, what types of variables were used, what effect size was found, and what the P values mean. It guides researchers through the process of selecting the correct statistics and show how to best report results for presentation and publication. Clear and concise explanations, combined

Contents:

Creating a SPSS data file and preparing to analyse the data

Descriptive statistics

Comparing two independent samples

Paired and one-sample t-tests

Analysis of variance

Analyses of longitudinal data

Correlation and regression

Rates and proportions

Risk statistics

Tests of reliability and agreement

Diagnostic statistics

Survival analyses.

Notes:

"Author's names reversed on the first edition"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118589922

1118589920

9781118589915

1118589912

OCLC:

896608546