Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons
eBook - ePub

Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons

  1. 14 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons

About this book

Trying to read up on statistics can be like trying to decide where you want to start eating the elephant and what's the most digestible way to get it down. This book is written to give bite-size nuggets of insight based on our experiences grappling with datasets large and small. It is intended to bridge the gap between the formal equations and the practicalities of generating a research manuscript. We won't pretend reading it will answer all your questions but it will help explain what questions need to be asked for your study and how you can address them with both accuracy and clarity. The size, detail and (ostensible) organization of this book allow for easy reading and can give a leg (or at least a half-step) up for those seeking more detailed study later.

Features include:

  • Excel sheets to allow exploration of topics raised

  • Emphasis on intuitive explanations over formulas.

  • Consideration of issues specific to clinical and surgical studies

Our audience is someone who may or may not have enjoyed formal statistics education (that is, you may have had it and not enjoyed it!) who may like seeing a more dressed-down presentation of the topics. Actual statisticians may pick this up at risk of a chuckle (with us or at us) and may find some useful ways to present topics to non-statisticians.

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Yes, you can access Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons by Mitchell G. Maltenfort,Camilo Restrepo,Antonia F. Chen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Probability & Statistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Authors’ Biographies
  9. Chapter 1 Introduction – Why Does a Surgeon Need Statistics?
  10. Chapter 2 Interpreting Probability: Medical School Axioms of Probability
  11. Chapter 3 Statistics, the Law of Large Numbers, and the Confidence Interval
  12. Chapter 4 The Basics of Statistical Tests
  13. Chapter 5 How Much Data Is Enough?
  14. Chapter 6 Showing the Data to Yourself First – Graphs and Tables, Part 1
  15. Chapter 7 How Normal Is a Gaussian Distribution? What to Do with Extreme Values?
  16. Chapter 8 All Probabilities Are Conditional
  17. Chapter 9 Quality versus Quantity in Data
  18. Chapter 10 Practical Examples
  19. Chapter 11 All Things Being Equal – But How? (Designing the Study)
  20. Chapter 12 Binary and Count Outcomes
  21. Chapter 13 Repeated Measurements and Accounting for Change
  22. Chapter 14 What If the Data Is Not All There?
  23. Chapter 15 Showing the Data to Others – Graphs and Tables, Part 2
  24. Chapter 16 Further Reading
  25. Glossary
  26. References
  27. Index