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Medical statistics from scratch / David Bowers.

By: Bowers, David, 1938-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chichester, Eng. ; Hoboken, N.J., USA : J. Wiley, c2002Description: vi, 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0470844744.Subject(s): Medical statistics | Medicine -- Research -- Statistical methodsDDC classification: 610.7
Contents:
Part I: Some fundamental stuff -- Part II: Describing data -- Part III: Getting the data -- Part IV: From little to large: Statistical inference -- Part V: The informed guess: Confidence interval estimation -- Part VI: Putting it to the test -- Part VII: Getting up close -- Part VIII: Getting into a relationship.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This second edition combines information from the original two books, Statistics from Scratch and Statistics Further from Scratch , to make one, comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression models for modeling of clinical outcomes. The level of mathematics is kept to a minimum to make the material easily accessible to the novice, and a multitude of illustrative cases are included in every chapter, drown from the current research literature.

Bibliography: (pages 198-200) and index.

Part I: Some fundamental stuff -- Part II: Describing data -- Part III: Getting the data -- Part IV: From little to large: Statistical inference -- Part V: The informed guess: Confidence interval estimation -- Part VI: Putting it to the test -- Part VII: Getting up close -- Part VIII: Getting into a relationship.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I Some Fundamental Stuff
  • First Things First: the Nature of Data
  • Part II Describing Data
  • Describing Data with Tables
  • Describing Data with Charts
  • Describing Data from Its Distributional Shape
  • Describing Data with Numeric Summary Values
  • Part III Getting The Data
  • Doing It Right First Time: Designing a Study
  • Part IV From Little to Large: Statistical Inference
  • From Samples to Populations: Making Inferences
  • Probability, Risk, and Odds
  • Part V The Informed Guess: Confidence Interval Estimation
  • Estimating the Value of a Single Population Parameter
  • Estimating the Difference between Two Population Parameters
  • Estimating the Ratio of Two Population Parameters
  • Part VI Putting It To The Test
  • Testing Hypotheses about the Difference Between Two Population Parameters
  • Testing Hypotheses about the Ratio of Two Population Parameters
  • Testing Hypotheses about the Equality of Population Proportions
  • Part VII Getting Up Close
  • Measuring the Association between Two Variables
  • Measuring the Agreement between Two Variables
  • Part VIII Getting into a Relationship
  • Straight-line Models: Linear Regression
  • Curvy Models: Logistic Regression
  • Appendix: Table of Random Numbers
  • Bibliography
  • Index