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Practical biostatistics : a step-by-step approach for evidence-based medicine /
"Practical Biostatistics: A Step-by-Step Approach for Evidence-Based Medicine, Second Edition presents a complete resource of biostatistical knowledge meant for health sciences students, researchers and health care professionals. The book's content covers the investigator's hypothesis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA, United States ; Cambridge, MA, United States ; Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom :
Elsevier, Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier,
[2021]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The investigator's hypotheses
- Investigator's hypothesis and expression of its corresponding outcome
- Part 2. Collective health
- Disease frequency measures
- Health indicators
- Epidemiological studies
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Part 3. Observational studies
- Basic concepts in observational studies
- Determination of association strength between an exposure factor and an event in observational studies
- Increasing accuracy in observational studies
- Part 4. Biostatistics of intervention studies
- The intervention studies
- n estimation and n assessment of a published trial
- Organization of variables and endpoints
- Measures for results expression of a clinical trial
- Determination of normality or nonnormality of data distribution
- Hypothesis testing
- Correlating sample data with the general population
- 95% confidence interval
- Part 5. Additional concepts in biostatistics
- Individual and collective benefit and risk indexes inferable from intervention studies
- Statistical assessment of diagnostic tests for the clinic
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Correlation and regression
- Per-protocol analysis and intention-to-treat analysis.