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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Streiner, David L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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