Medical Statistics From Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals 4th Edition

Medical Statistics From Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals 4th Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781119523888,1119523885,9781119523949, 111952394X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 111952394X
• ISBN-13: 9781119523949
• Author: David Bowers

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.

Table contents:

1 First things first – the nature of data

2 Describing data with tables

3 Every picture tells a story – describing data with charts

4 Describing data from its shape

5 Measures of location – Numbers R us

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

7 Incidence, prevalence, and standardisation

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

9 Research design – Part I: Observational study designs

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

11 Getting the participants for your study: ways of sampling

12 The idea of probability

13 Risk and odds

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

15 Using confidence intervals to compare two population parameters

16 Confidence intervals for the ratio of two population parameters

17 Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters

18 The Chi‐squared (χ2) test – what, why, and how?

19 Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters

20 Measuring the association between two variables

21 Measuring agreement

22 Straight line models: linear regression

23 Curvy models: logistic regression

24 Counting models: Poisson regression

25 Measuring survival

26 Systematic review and meta‐analysis

27 Diagnostic testing

28 Missing data

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