Medical Statistics from Scratch 4th Edition David Bowers

Medical Statistics from Scratch – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781119523949,111952394X

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119523885
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119523888
• Author(s): David Bowers

Correctly understanding and using medical statistics is a key skill for all medical students and health professionals.

In an informal and friendly style, Medical Statistics from Scratch provides a practical foundation for everyone whose first interest is probably not medical statistics. Keeping the level of mathematics to a minimum, it clearly illustrates statistical concepts and practice with numerous real-world examples and cases drawn from current medical literature.

Medical Statistics from Scratch is an ideal learning partner for all medical students and health professionals needing an accessible introduction, or a friendly refresher, to the fundamentals of medical statistics.

Table contents:

I Some Fundamental Stuff 1

1 First things first – the nature of data 3

II Descriptive Statistics 15

2 Describing data with tables 17

3 Every picture tells a story – describing data with charts 31

4 Describing data from its shape 51

5 Measures of location – Numbers R us 62

6 Measures of spread – Numbers R us – (again) 75

7 Incidence, prevalence, and standardisation 92

III The Confounding Problem 111

8 Confounding – like the poor, (nearly) always with us 113

IV Design and Data 125

9 Research design – Part I: Observational study designs 127

10 Research design – Part II: getting stuck in – experimental studies 146

11 Getting the participants for your study: ways of sampling 156

V Chance Would Be a Fine Thing 165

12 The idea of probability 167

13 Risk and odds 175

VI The Informed Guess – An Introduction to Confidence Intervals 191

14 Estimating the value of a single population parameter – the idea of confidence intervals 193

15 Using confidence intervals to compare two population parameters 206

16 Confidence intervals for the ratio of two population parameters 224

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