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Basic statistics : a primer for the biomedical sciences /

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"In the last decade, there have been significant changes in the way statistics is incorporated into biostatistical, medical, and public health research. Addressing the need for a modernized treatment of these statistical applications, Basic Statistics, Fourth Edition presents relevant, up-to-da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dunn, Olive Jean (Author), Clark, Virginia, 1928- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, a John Wiley & Sons, Inc., publication, [2009]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Medical statistics.
Biometry.
Statistics.
Biometry
Statistics as Topic
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Initial steps
  • Populations and samples
  • Collecting and entering data
  • Frequency tables and their graphs
  • Measures of location and variability
  • The normal distribution
  • Estimation of population means : confidence intervals
  • Tests of hypotheses on population means
  • Variances : estimation and tests
  • Categorical data : proportions
  • Categorical data : analysis of two-way frequency tables
  • Regression and correlation
  • Nonparametric statistics
  • Introduction to survival analysis.