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An introduction to medical statistics /
An Introduction to Medical Statistics, fourth edition, is a 'must-have' textbook. Written in an easy-to-understand style and packed with real life examples, the text clearly explains the common statistical methods seen in published research and guidelines, as well as how to interpret and a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. |
| Colección: | Oxford medical publications.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Statistics and medicine -- 1.2 Statistics and mathematics -- 1.3 Statistics and computing -- 1.4 Assumptions and approximations -- 1.5 The scope of this book -- 2 THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS -- 2.1 Comparing treatments -- 2.2 Random allocation -- 2.3 Stratification -- 2.4 Methods of allocation without random numbers -- 2.5 Volunteer bias -- 2.6 Intention to treat -- 2.7 Cross-over designs -- 2.8 Selection of subjects for clinical trials -- 2.9 Response bias and double blind studies -- 2.10 Assessment bias and placebos -- 2.11 Laboratory experiments -- 2.12 Experimental units and cluster randomized trials -- 2.13 Consent in clinical trials -- 2.14 Minimization -- 2.15 Multiple choice questions -- 2.16 Exercise: the 'know your midwife' trial -- 3 SAMPLING AND OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES -- 3.1 Observational studies -- 3.2 Censuses -- 3.3 Sampling -- 3.4 Random sampling -- 3.5 Sampling in clinical and epidemiological studies -- 3.6 Cross-sectional studies-- 3.7 Cohort studies -- 3.8 Case-control studies -- 3.9 Questionnaire bias in observational studies -- 3.10 Ecological studies -- 3.11 Multiple choice questions: observational studies -- 3.12 Exercise: Campylobacter jejuni infection -- 4 SUMMARIZING DATA -- 4.1 Types of data -- 4.2 Frequency distributions -- 4.3 Histograms and other frequency graphs -- 4.4 Shapes of frequency distribution -- 4.5 Medians and quantiles -- 4.6 The mean -- 4.7 Variance, range, and interquartile range -- 4.8 Standard deviation -- 4.9 Multiple choice questions: summarizing data -- 4.10 Exercise: student measurements and a graph of study numbers -- Appendix 4A: The divisor for the variance -- Appendix 4B Formulae for the sum of squares -- 5 PRESENTING DATA -- 5.1 Rates and proportions -- 5.2 Significant figures -- 5.3 Presenting tables -- 5.4 Pie charts -- 5.5 Bar charts -- 5.6 Scatter diagrams -- 5.7 Line graphs and time series -- 5.8 Misleading graphs -- 5.9 Using different colours-- 5.10 Logarithmic scales -- 5.11 Multiple choice questions: data presentation -- 5.12 Exercise: creating presentation graphs -- Appendix 5A: logarithms -- 6 PROBABILITY -- 6.1 Probability -- 6.2 Properties of probability -- 6.3 Probability distributions and random variables -- 6.4 The Binomial distribution -- 6.5 Mean and variance -- 6.6 Properties of means and variances -- 6.7 The Poisson distribution -- 6.8 Conditional probability -- 6.9 Multiple choice questions: probability -- 6.10 Exercise: probability in court -- Appendix 6A: Permutations and combinations -- Appendix 6B Expected value of a sum of squares -- 7 THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION -- 7.1 Probability for continuous variables -- 7.2 The Normal distribution -- 7.3 Properties of the Normal distribution -- 7.4 Variables which follow a Normal distribution -- 7.5 The Normal plot -- 7.6 Multiple choice questions: the Normal distribution -- 7.7 Exercise: distribution of some measurements obtained by students-- Appendix 7A: Chi-squared, t and F -- 8 ESTIMATION -- 8.1 Sampling distributions -- 8.2 Standard error of a sample man -- 8.3 Confidence intervals -- 8.4 Standard error and confidence interval for a proportion -- 8.5 The difference between two means -- 8.6 Comparison of two proportions -- 8.7 Number needed to treat -- 8.8 Standard error of a sample standard deviation -- 8.9 Confidence interval for a proportion when numbers are small -- 8.10 Confidence interval for a median and other quantiles -- 8.11 Bootstrap or resampling methods -- 8.12 What is the correct confidence interval? -- 8.13 Multiple choice answers: confidence intervals -- 8.14 Exercise: confidence intervals in two acupuncture studies -- Appendix 8A: Standard error of a man -- 9 SIGNIFICANCE TESTS -- 9.1 Testing a hypothesis -- 9.2 An example: the sign test -- 9.3 Principles of significance tests -- 9.4 Significance levels and types of error -- 9.5 One and two sided tests of significance-- 9.6 Significance, real, and important -- 9.7 Comparing the means of large samples -- 9.8 Comparison of two proportions -- 9.9 The power of a test -- 9.10 Multiple significance tests -- 9.11 Repeated significance tests and sequential analysis -- 9.12 Significance tests and confidence intervals -- 9.13 Multiple choice questions: significance tests -- 9.14 Exercise: Crohn's disease and cornflakes -- 10 COMPARING THE MEANS OF SMALL SAMPLES -- 10.1 The t distribution -- 10.2 The one sample t method -- 10.3 The means of two independent samples -- 10.4 The use of transformations -- 10.5 Deviations from the assumptions of t methods -- 10.6 What is a large sample? 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