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A guide for the statistically perplexed : selected readings for clinical researchers /
Inspired to write on this topic in reaction to mistakes he encountered in actual papers, David L. Streiner uses his trademark sense of humour and light-hearted style to explain complex statistical concepts in lucid, jargon-free language.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introductory statistics. Do you see what I mean? : indices of central tendency
- Maintaining standards : differences between the standard deviation and standard error and when to use each
- Breaking up is hard to do : the heartbreak of dichotomizing continuous data
- Pick a number : sample size and power in psychiatric research
- Speaking graphically : an introduction to some new graphing techniques
- Let me count the ways : measuring incidence, prevalence, and impact in epidemiological studies
- Risky business : making sense of estimates of risk
- More advanced statistics. The case of the missing data : methods of dealing with dropouts and other research vagaries
- An introduction to multivariate statistics
- Figuring out factors : the use and misuse of factor analysis
- Regression in the service of the superego : the dos and don'ts of stepwise multiple regression
- Regression towards the mean : its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment
- Stayin' alive : an introduction to survival analysis
- Life and chi-squared : an introduction to log-linear analysis
- Confronting the confounders : the meaning, detection, and handling of confounders in research
- Finding our way : an introduction to path analysis
- Building a better model : an introduction to structural equation modelling
- Unicorns to exist : a tutorial on "proving" the null hypothesis
- Research methods. Reconcilable differences : the marriage of qualitative and quantitative methods
- Thinking small : research designs appropriate for clinical practice
- The two "E's" of research : efficacy and effectiveness trials
- Measurement. A checklist for evaluating the usefulness of rating scales
- Learning how to differ : agreement and reliability statistics
- What's under the ROC? : an introduction to receiver operating characteristics curves
- Measure for measure : new developments in measurement and item response theory
- Miscellaneous. Putting it all together : using meta-analysis in psychiatric research
- "While you're up, get me a grant" : a guide to grant application writing
- A short cut to rejection : how not to write the results section of a paper.