By
Robert Riffenburgh, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Robert Riffenburgh, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Description
Medicine deals with treatments that work often but not always, so treatment success must be based on probability. Statistical methods
lift medical research from the anecdotal to measured levels of probability. This book presents the common statistical methods used in
90% of medical research, along with the underlying basics, in two parts: a textbook section for use by students in health care training
programs, e.g., medical schools or residency training, and a reference section for use by practicing clinicians in reading medical literature
and performing their own research. The book does not require a significant level of mathematical knowledge and couches the methods in
multiple examples drawn from clinical medicine, giving it applicable context.
Audience:
Medical and public health students, both at the graduate and undergraduate level; physicians and researchers.
