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Subject(s)

• Medical statistics [Browse]

Series

Oxford medical publications. [More in this series]

Summary note

An Introduction to Medical Statistics, fourth edition, is a 'must-have' textbook. Written in an easy-to-understand style and packed with real life examples, the text clearly explains the common statistical methods seen in published research and guidelines, as well as how to interpret and analyse statistics for clinical practice.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographic references (pages 397-409) and index.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The design of experiments
• Chapter 3 Sampling and observational studies
• Chapter 4 Summarizing data
• Chapter 5 Presenting data
• Chapter 6 Probability
• Chapter 7 The Normal distribution
• Chapter 8 Estimation
• Chapter 9 Significance tests
• Chapter 10 Comparing the means of small samples
• Chapter 11 Regression and correlation
• Chapter 12 Methods based on rank order
• Chapter 13 The analysis of cross-tabulations
• Chapter 14 Choosing the statistical method
• Chapter 15 Multifactorial methods
• Chapter 16 Time to event data
• Chapter 17 Meta-analysis
• Chapter 18 Determination of sample size
• Chapter 19 Missing data
• Chapter 20 Clinical measurement
• Chapter 21 Mortality statistics and population structure
• Chapter 22 The Bayesian approach
• Appendix 1: Suggested answers to multiple choice questions and exercises.

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ISBN

• 0-19-100299-2
• 0-19-251839-9

OCLC

936553642

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