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Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health professionals /
Medical Statistics from Scratch is the ideal learning partner for all medical students and health professionals needing accessible introduction, or a friendly refresher, to the fundamentals of medical statistics. This new fourth, edition been completely revised, the examples from current research up...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken NJ :
WileyBlackwell,
2020.
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| Edición: | Fourth edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Medical Statistics from Scratch is the ideal learning partner for all medical students and health professionals needing accessible introduction, or a friendly refresher, to the fundamentals of medical statistics. This new fourth, edition been completely revised, the examples from current research updated and new material added. --Book Jacket. Table of 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 467 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119523925 1119523923 9781119523949 111952394X 1119523885 9781119523888 |