A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed : Selected Readings for Clinical Researchers /

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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.
Temas:
Medicine > Research > Statistical methods.
Medical statistics.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
PSYCHOLOGY > Statistics.
research (function)
Recherche.
Statistiques.
Medecine > Recherche > Methodes statistiques.
Research
Statistics as Topic
Medicine > statistics & numerical data
Research.
Statistics.
Electronic books.
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.

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