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Statistical Methodologies with Medical Applications
About this book
This book presents the methodology and applications ofa range ofimportant topics in statistics, and is designed forgraduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics and for medical researchers.Illustrations and more than ninety exercises with solutions are presented. They are constructed from the research findings of the medical journals, summary reports of the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and practical situations. The illustrations and exercises are related to topics such as immunization, obesity, hypertension, lipid levels, diet and exercise, harmful effects of smoking and air pollution, and the benefits of gluten free diet.
Thisbook can be recommended for a one or two semester graduate level course forstudents studying Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Health Sciences. Itwill also be useful asa companion for medical researchers and research oriented physicians.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Topics for illustrations, examples and exercises
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Statistical measures
- 2 Probability, random variable, expected value and variance
- 3 Odds ratios, relative risk, sensitivity, specificity and the ROC curve
- 4 Probability distributions, expectations, variances and correlation
- 5 Means, standard errors and confidence limits
- 6 Proportions, odds ratios and relative risks: Estimation and confidence limits
- 7 Tests of hypotheses: Means and variances
- 8 Tests of hypotheses: Proportions and percentages
- 9 The Chisquare statistic
- 10 Regression and correlation
- 11 Analysis of variance and covariance: Designs of experiments
- 12 Meta-analysis
- 13 Survival analysis
- 14 Nonparametric statistics
- 15 Further topics
- Solutions to exercises
- Appendix tables
- References
- Index
- End User License Agreement