Medical Statistics from Scratch : an Introduction for Health Professionals.

This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down to earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a vari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2008.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Medical Statistics from Scratch
  • Contents
  • Preface to the 2nd Edition
  • Preface to the 1st Edition
  • Introduction
  • I Some Fundamental Stuff
  • 1 First things first
  • the nature of data
  • Learning Objectives
  • Variables and Data
  • The good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Types of Variable
  • Categorical Variables
  • Metric Variables
  • How can I Tell what Type of Variable I am Dealing with?
  • II Descriptive Statistics
  • 2 Describing Data with Tables
  • Learning Objectives
  • What is Descriptive Statistics?
  • The Frequency Table
  • 3 Describing Data with Charts
  • Learning Objectives
  • Picture it!
  • Charting Nominal and Ordinal Data
  • Charting Discrete Metric Data
  • Charting Continuous Metric Data
  • Charting Cumulative Data
  • 4 Describing Data from its Shape
  • Learning Objectives
  • The Shape of Things to Come
  • 5 Describing Data with Numeric Summary Values
  • Learning Objectives
  • Numbers R us
  • Summary Measures of Location
  • Summary Measures of Spread
  • Standard Deviation and the Normal Distribution
  • III Getting the Data
  • 6 Doing it Right First Time
  • Designing a Study
  • Learning Objectives
  • Hey ho! Hey ho! It's Off to Work we Go
  • Collecting the Data
  • Types of Sample
  • Types of Study
  • Confounding
  • Matching
  • Comparing Cohort and Case-Control Designs
  • Getting Stuck in
  • Experimental Studies
  • IV From Little to Large
  • Statistical Inference
  • 7 From Samples to Populations
  • Making Inferences
  • Learning Objectives
  • Statistical Inference
  • 8 Probability, Risk and Odds
  • Learning Objectives
  • Chance would be a Fine Thing
  • The Idea of Probability
  • Calculating Probability
  • Probability and the Normal Distribution
  • Risk
  • Odds
  • Why you can't Calculate Risk in a Case-Control Study
  • The Link between Probability and Odds
  • The Risk Ratio
  • The Odds Ratio
  • Number Needed to Treat (NNT)
  • V The Informed Guess
  • Confidence Interval Estimation
  • 9 Estimating the Value of a Single Population Parameter
  • The Idea of Confidence Intervals
  • Learning Objectives
  • Confidence Interval Estimation for a Population Mean
  • Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
  • Estimating a Confidence Interval for the Median of a Single Population
  • 10 Estimating the Difference between Two Population Parameters
  • Learning Objectives
  • What's the Difference?
  • Estimating the Difference between the Means of Two Independent Populations
  • Using a Method Based on the Two-Sample t Test
  • Estimating the Difference between Two Matched Population Means
  • Using a Method Based on the Matched-Pairs t Test
  • Estimating the Difference between Two Independent Population Proportions
  • Estimating the Difference between Two Independent Population Medians
  • The Mann-Whitney Rank-Sums Method
  • Estimating the Difference between Two Matched Population Medians
  • Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Method
  • 11 Estimating the Ratio of Two Population Parameters
  • Learning Objectives

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