Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health professionals / David Bowers.

Author/creator Bowers, David, 1938-
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoChichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Some fundamental stuff -- First things first : the nature of data -- Describing data with tables -- Describing data with charts -- Describing data from its distributional shape -- Describing data with numeric summary values -- Doing it right first time : designing a study -- From samples to populations : making inferences -- Chance would be a fine thing - probability, risk and odds -- Estimating the value of a single population parameter -- Estimating the differences between two population parameters -- Estimating the ratio of two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the equality of two or more proportions -- Measuring the association between two variables -- Measuring the agreement between two variables -- Straight-line models - linear regression -- Curvy models - logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276) and index.
LCCN 2007041619
ISBN9780470513019 :
ISBN0470513012

Availability

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Laupus Books - Stacks WA 950 B786M 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold