Statistical Reasoning in Medicine : The Intuitive P-Value Primer /

Through careful, deliberate thought this book provides the nonmathematician with a foundation for understanding the underlying statistical reasoning process in clinical research. This volume recognizes the inevitable tension between the mathematics of hypothesis testing and the ethical requirements...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moyé, Lemuel A.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Let Others Thrash it Out! A Brief History
  • Patients, Patience, and P Value
  • Shrine Worship
  • Change Your or Your Name: P Values in Epidemiology
  • Power and P Values
  • One Tailed vs. Two Tailed Testing
  • P Values and Multiple Endpoints: Pernicious Abstractions
  • P Values and Multiple Endpoints: Poison Placebos in the Population
  • Neurons vs. Silicon: Regrassion Analysis & P Values
  • Bayesian P Values
  • Blind Guides P Values, Subgroups & Data Dredging
  • Ho Hum Effects: P Values and Effect Size
  • Conclusions.