Practical Statistics for Medical Research
eBook - PDF

Practical Statistics for Medical Research

  1. 624 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Practical Statistics for Medical Research

About this book

Practical Statistics for Medical Research is a problem-based text for medical researchers, medical students, and others in the medical arena who need to use statistics but have no specialized mathematics background. The author draws on twenty years of experience as a consulting medical statistician to provide clear explanations to key statistical concepts, with a firm emphasis on practical aspects of designing and analyzing medical research. Using real data and including dozens of interesting data sets, this bestselling text gives special attention to the presentation and interpretation of results and the many real problems that arise in medical research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Statistics in medical research
  8. Chapter 2: Types of data
  9. Chapter 3: Describing data
  10. Chapter 4: Theoretical distributions
  11. Chapter 5: Designing research
  12. Chapter 6: Using a computer
  13. Chapter 7: Preparing to analyse data
  14. Chapter 8: Principles of statistical analysis
  15. Chapter 9: Comparing groups โ€“ continuous data
  16. Chapter 10: Comparing groups โ€“ categorical data
  17. Chapter 11: Relation between two continuous variables
  18. Chapter 12: Relation between several variables
  19. Chapter 13: Analysis of survival times
  20. Chapter 14: Some common problems in medical research
  21. Chapter 15: Clinical trials
  22. Chapter 16: The medical literature
  23. Appendix A Mathematical notation
  24. Appendix B Statistical tables
  25. Answers to exercises
  26. References
  27. Index