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Interpretation and uses of medical statistics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daly, Leslie E.
Other Authors: Bourke, Geoffrey J. (Geoffrey Joseph)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2000.
Edition:Fifth edition.
Subjects:
Biometry.
Statistics.
Table of Contents:
  • Describing data - a single variable
  • Probability, populations and samples
  • Associations: chance, confounded or causal?
  • Confidence intervals: general principles; proportions, means, medians, counts and rates
  • Hypothesis testing: general principles and one-sample tests for means, proportions, counts and rates
  • Epidemiological and clinical research methods
  • Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests: two-group comparisons
  • Sample size determination
  • Comparison of more than two independent groups [!]
  • Associations between two quantitative variables: regression and correlation
  • Multivariate analysis and the control of confounding [!]
  • Bias and measurement error
  • Appendix A: Computational shortcuts
  • Appendix B: Statistical tables
  • Appendix C: A 'cookbook' for hypothesis tests and confidence intervals
  • Appendix D: World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.