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A clinician's guide to statistics and epidemiology in mental health : measuring truth and uncertainty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghaemi, S. Nassir
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Psychiatry > Statistical methods.
Psychiatric epidemiology.
Psychiatry > methods.
Statistics as Topic.
Mental Disorders > epidemiology.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Why data never speak for themselves
  • Why you cannot believe your eyes : the three C's
  • Levels of evidence
  • Types of bias
  • Randomization
  • Regression
  • Hypothesis-testing : the dreaded p-value and statistical significance
  • The use of hypothesis-testing statistics in clinical trials
  • The alternative : effect estimation
  • What does causation mean?
  • A philosophy of statistics
  • Evidence-based medicine : defense and criticisms
  • The alchemy of meta-analysis
  • Bayesian statistics : why your opinion counts
  • How journal articles get published
  • How scientific research impacts practice
  • Dollars, data, and drugs
  • Bioethics and the clinician/researcher divide.