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Essential Medical Statistics
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2003.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Essential Medical Statistics
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Part A: Basics
- 1 Using this book
- 2 Defining the data
- 3 Displaying the data
- Part B: Analysis of numerical outcomes
- 4 Means, standard deviations and standard errors
- 5 The normal distribution
- 6 Confidence interval for a mean
- 7 Comparison of two means: confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and P-values
- 8 Using P-values and confidence intervals to interpret the results of statistical analyses
- 9 Comparison of means from several groups: analysis of variance
- 10 Linear regression and correlation
- 11 Multiple regression
- 12 Goodness of fit and regression diagnostics
- 13 Transformations
- Part C: Analysis of binary outcomes
- 14 Probability, risk and odds (of disease)
- 15 Proportions and the binomial distribution
- 16 Comparing two proportions
- 17 Chi-squared tests for 2 x 2 and larger contingency tables
- 18 Controlling for confounding: stratification
- 19 Logistic regression: comparing two or more exposure groups
- 20 Logistic regression: controlling for confounding and other extensions
- 21 Matched studies
- Part D: Longitudinal studies: Analysis of rates and survival times
- 22 Longitudinal studies, rates and the Poisson distribution
- 23 Comparing rates
- 24 Poisson regression
- 25 Standardization
- 26 Survival analysis: displaying and comparing survival patterns
- 27 Regression analysis of survival data
- Part E: Statistical modelling
- 28 Likelihood
- 29 Regression modelling
- 30 Relaxing model assumptions
- 31 Analysis of clustered data
- 32 Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- 33 Bayesian statistics
- Part F: Study design, analysis and interpretation
- 34 Linking analysis to study design: summary of methods
- 35 Calculation of required sample size
- 36 Measurement error: assessment and implications
- 37 Measures of association and impact
- 38 Strategies for analysis
- Appendix: Statistical tables A1 Areas in tail of the standard normal distribution
- A2 Percentage points of the standard normal distribution
- A3 Percentage points of the t distribution
- A4 Two-sided P-values for the t distribution, according to the value of the test statistic